ile visiting Bath with her friend the flighty if pleasant Mrs. Allen, falls in love with the young clergyman Henry Tilney. Retiring to the ancestral Tilney home, Morland û who has herself read Radcliffe's novel û sees ghouls and nightmarish horrors behind every door. However, the only true horror proves to be Henry's father, whom he ignores when he asks for Catherine's hand in marriage.
These minutiae of country life remain undisturbed in many ways despite the fundamental shifts that were occurring in the world around them. The world of 19th England was one in flux, in which a number of
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