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Catherine's only 17 and Mr Tilney proposes (though does he in this adaptation?)

When Catherine is thrown out of his father's house, Mr Tilney isn't there but he's pissed when he returns and discovers what happened. Against his fathers wishes he goes to Catherine.

He felt himself bound as much in honour as in affection to Miss Morland, and believing that heart to be his own ... no unworthy retraction of a tacit consent, no reversing decree of unjustifiable anger, could shake his fidelity, or influence the resolutions it prompted.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey C30

Catherine is "assured of his affection" which "originated in nothing better than gratitude, ... a persuasion of her partiality for him." It's a simple love story really; she meets a guy and falls in love, that sparks his affection. His father attempts to get in the way and fails.

HENRY: Will you have me? Will you love me?

CATHERINE (for most of the novel): I'm only 17. I don't know anything

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Audio Betty by Taylor Swift

Things aren't always what they seem is a theme running through the two shows where today's dress is featured! Do mysterious haunted houses often have another explanation?

This beautiful blue regency gown was seen in an episode of Doctor Who, in the episode The Haunting of Villa Diodati, where Lili Miller wore it as Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin.

It was seen earlier, worn by Catherine Walker as Eleanor Tilney in the 2007 adaptation of Jane Austen's parody on the Gothic novel - Northanger Abbey.

Catherine is briefly worried Mr Tilney loves someone else (only in the adaptation, not in the book)

In the novel when Catherine sees Miss Tilney with Mr Tilney she  "immediately guessed (her) to be his sister" thereby (as Austen disappointedly points out) not having a dramatic moment of "turning a deathlike paleness and falling in a fit on Mrs Allen's bosom." Considering what other ideas Catherine has during the course of the novel, it's a big deal to show so much maturity and sensibleness.

".. it had never entered her head that Mr. Tilney could be married; he had not behaved, he had not talked, like the married men to whom she had been used; he had never mentioned a wife, and he had acknowledged a sister."

-Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey C8

The lyrics fit so well here, she's devastated thinking Mr Tilney is in love with someone, then the moment she realises the lady is his sister the night is sparkling again. (I should probably use this song for her meeting Mr Tilney at some point)

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Isabella thinks about James in regret

She thinks she's captured Captain Tilney when she dismisses her current fiancé, James Morland. In the 2007 adaptation they show her faith in Tilney was due to them having a physical relationship, a faith which she quickly looses as soon as the deed is done. I like to think the last frame of this video is her thinking of James in regret.

Isabella asks Catherine, her friend and James' sister, to intervene on her behalf, completely unaware that Catherine already knows she's jilted James.

"I am quite uneasy about your dear brother, not having heard from him since he went to Oxford; and am fearful of some misunderstanding. Your kind offices will set all right: he is the only man I ever did or could love, and I trust you will convince him of it."

- Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, C27

It's likely that Isabella, whether she slept with the Captain or not, will long think about James Morland and what she lost.

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Video from 2007 Northanger Abbey

Catherine doesn't part the crowd and is anxious

?? in a series of Jane Austen/Taylor Swift lyrics

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Video from 1984 Northanger Abbey