Catherine Morland, with all her enthusiasm and her mistakes, her modest tenderness and right feeling, is a most captivating picture of a very young girl. How Does Jane Austen Direct Her Readers' Response To Her Heroine Throughout Northanger Abbey? Written by James Durrant Marilyn Butler, in her introduction to the novel, suggests that; "Northanger Abbey, ... from its first paragraph ... moves to characterise the naïve romantic private reader as a beginner; it flatters and shames her into becoming more ambitious. In this educative process Catherine the heroine shows the way." However, Catherine learns more in the course