Who is Henry Tilney in Northanger Abbey?

Henry Tilney is General Tilney’s younger son, brother to Eleanor, curate with taste for novels and sharp kindness. He guides Catherine around Bath, satirizes her expectations at Northanger, and later proposes after his father cruelly dismisses her. Love and Marriage pairs his wit with her sincerity — he teaches without crushing.

Character id henry_tilney; link Gothic imagination for abbey lecture and ending for proposal. Social Class and Wealth theme his father’s mercenary views he rejects. Captain Frederick Tilney flirts with Isabella — contrast to Henry’s steadiness. Evidence v, viii, xxiii, xxxi chapters in allowed slugs.