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Catherine Morland
fictional character
Catherine Morland, fictional character, the impressionable heroine of Jane Austenās novel Northanger Abbey (written 1798 or 1799, published 1817). Catherineās view of the world is coloured by her love of Gothic stories until she learns the value of controlling her imagination.
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