As she revealed in the interview I posted opening the blog tour, the Doyenne of Austenesque fiction, Diana Birchall, started writing The Bride of Northanger soon after the last JASNA conference whose theme was Northanger Abbey, in Portland in 2010.
She had always found Northanger Abbey very charming and youthful and was particularly curious about the central relationship.
I've personally always found Northanger Abbey very entertaining and, in the same time, an interesting experiment in the literary world of Jane Austen's time: it blends the conventions of two differnt types of novels, the Gothic Novel and the Novel of Manners.
So, I was really glad when I heard there was
a sequel to Northanger Abbey by Diana Birchall coming out and gladly accepted the invitation to take
part in the blog tour to promote
it. We have a lot of Pride and Prejudice
material to enjoy, but rarely get to
read fan fiction dealing with the other novels. This is why I also accepted to read and review The Bride of Northanger.
