Thanks for this introduction to Eleanor Tilney.

Eleanor appears tranquil, kind hearted and sensistive.
Though she appears alittle reserved which may prevent her from having many friends.

I was interested in contrast to Henry, a speedy acquaitnce with Miss Tilney for Catherine is prevented by, 'the frequent want of of one or more of these requisites, prevented their doing more than going through the first rudiments of an acquitance, by informing themselves how well the other liked Bath...' (Ch.8)

Otherwise, Catherine had lots to say to become intimately acquainted with Eleanor !

] What I wanted to focus on this week is how Miss Tilney shows great depth of charecter, but only if you look closely.

I don't think we learn much about Eleanor personally until the walk to Beechan Cliff in Ch.14.
Like Henry, Eleanor is a competent, attentive reader who enjoys fiction and non-fiction.
History, novels including Udolpho, the Picturesque.
Eleanor and Henry's converse indicates they are both familiar with ideas of Gilpin's ideas on landscape.

Perhaps Eleanor finds herself with much leisure time alone to read.
Yet I wonder if Eleanor is more realistic in some ways than Henry. On the walk, Eleanor is somewhat alarmed when Catherine remarks she has heard something shocking will soon come from London. Eleanor doesn't realize Catherine means a new book.
Henry is amused at Eleanor's thinking of a riot.

However, the 1790s' was a time of social unrest.
Eleanor's thought of of riots does not seem entirely fanciful.
In the decade of the French Revolution in the 1790s', the government used fear of riot and disorder to enact a sries of repressive measures against radical writers.
Of course, on another level Eleanor's ready misunderstanding of Catherine's remark can be attributed to the conservative attitude of her class and perhaps fear for a brother in the Dragoons.

Eleanor and Isabella apear as competing role models, calling to Catherine with different interests and ideas.

I agree Eleanor is a charecter that gothic authors may have written of. She apears subject to a difficult father which may make her feel reserved. Yet Eleanor is well mannered and refined, kindly, rich and she always wears white.
Probably the most elegant lady in Austen.