Northanger Abbey

It’s the inventory of more than 100,000 books, including rare finds such as a first American edition of Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey,”

Mansfield Park sold for £8,400 and Northanger Abbey and Persuasion for £6,400.

Finally, published a year after Austen's death in 1817, came Northanger Abbey and Persuasion in a run of 1,750 copies.

Catherine Morland in "Northanger Abbey" happily abandoned her music lessons at an early age, but there are female musical characters in the other five of Austen's six completed novels.

Mrs. Allen asks Mr. Tilney in Jane Austen’s “Northanger Abbey,” bewildered that a man should know or care about fabric.