The letter to her niece, in which she writes a fond pastiche of a gothic novel, shows her enjoying the genre she satirised in Northanger Abbey
Jane Austen may have satirised the gothic novel in Northanger Abbey, but a letter to be auctioned for the first time next week shows her enjoying the guilty pleasure of such sensational fiction herself.
The letter, dated 29-30 October 1812, was sent to one of Austen’s favourite nieces, Anna Lefroy. It is written as a note to the author Rachel Hunter, whose 1806 novel Lady Maclairn, the Victim of Villany the two had recently read.
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