2 APRIL 1994, Page 31

LETTERS Jane would not approve

Sir: So Paul Johnson thinks the heroine of Northanger Abbey was called Cathleen Moreland (And another thing, 19 March). Even if he hasn't read the book for years, didn't it strike him that Cathleen was a wildly unlikely name for one of Jane Austen's female characters?

She was, of course, Catherine Morland.

Pamela Howe

Clifton, Bristol