Episode 37: The Thing About Petty-France

If General Tilney's chaise leaves Bath at 10 am and Henry's curricle also leaves Bath at 10 am and there are x postilions and y outriders and Catherine really, really, really just wants to get to the abbey, how many capes are on Henry's greatcoat?

This episode we're all about schedules and mileage (and Henry's greatcoat), as we journey along with Catherine and stopover at Petty-France.

Selected episode sources

• Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. Edited by James Kinsley and John Davie. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2008.

• Cantrell, Dean. “Yes, There Is a Petty France.” Persuasions 9 (1987): 36.

• Jones, Hazel. Jane Austen’s Journeys. London: Hale, 2014.

• Lane, Maggie. Jane Austen’s England. London: Hale, 1996.

• Le Faye, Deirdre. Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels. London: Frances Lincoln, 2003.

• Mogg, Edward. Mogg’s Pocket Itinerary of the Direct and Cross Roads of England and Wales, with Part of the Roads of Scotland. London, 1828.

• The Bodkin. “Stay.” Accessed April 30, 2022. https://thebodkin.co.uk/.