Emily Aubert y Catherine Morland: Naturaleza e interiores en su camino hacia la madurez.

Nature and human being have been, since the origin of the world, closely related. An understanding of them cannot be achieved separately. The following article will try to show this relation between women and nature in both novels: Anne Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho and Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. It is true that thesenovels show the path to follow to reach female maturity and the role nature and interior settings have on it. One of the differences the reader may find is the chose female character: Radcliffe’s heroine versus Austen’s anti – heroine. The first one will have to cope with difficult situations from an emotional and social point of view to reach maturity. Austen shows the same process but, ironically, she chooses a female who is not considered a sterotype. Both writers get their goal: a complete woman that enjoys her emotional and personal freedom.