Females are to behave in a feminine manner that constricts them to the domesticity within the sphere of the household in the 18th Century. It is part of the gender stereotype that they act elegant and lady like. Jane Austen uses Catherine’s character to refer her to a heroine that is out of ordinary from the stereotype. The first sentence of the novel “No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be an heroine” . This is where Northanger Abbey critiques the issues on gender for Catherine Morland the question is why no one saw her to be born a heroine? The reason is because Catherine when she was younger was fond of all boys’ plays, and greatly preferred to play cricket, not merely to dolls” . Playing