Scallydandling about the books | Tilly and Ros visit Blaize Castle, unlike poor Catherine in Northanger Abbey ch 11 @scallydandlingaboutthebook2711 | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Tilly @tillysshelf and I are on a Jane Austen and Northanger Abbey outing. In chapter eleven Catherine is tempted to go on an excursion by carriage enticed by the prospect of visiting Blaize Castle. Little does she know that it is not a real castle. It was built as a folly in the 1760s to create an interesting viewpoint in the parkland of Blaise House. Jane Austen herself and many of her readers would have known this. It illustrates Catherine's naivety and romanticism and the falsehood and bombast of John Thorpe. Of course he also underestimates the journey and they turn back halfway to Bristol.
Tilly @tillysshelf and I are on a Jane Austen and Northanger Abbey outing. In chapter eleven Catherine is tempted to go on an excursion by carriage enticed by the prospect of visiting Blaize Castle. Little does she know that it is not a real castle. It was built as a folly in the 1760s to create an interesting viewpoint in the parkland of Blaise House. Jane Austen herself and many of her readers would have known this. It illustrates Catherine's naivety and romanticism and the falsehood and bombast of John Thorpe. Of course he also underestimates the journey and they turn back halfway to Bristol.
