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- About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
- The little girl performed her long journey in safety; and at Northampton was met by Mrs. Norris, who thus regaled in the credit of being foremost to welcome her, and in the importance of leading her in to the others, and recommending her to their kindness.
- The first event of any importance in the family was the death of Mr. Norris, which happened when Fanny was about fifteen, and necessarily introduced alterations and novelties.
- Tom Bertram had of late spent so little of his time at home that he could be only nominally missed; and Lady Bertram was soon astonished to find how very well they did even without his father, how well Edmund could supply his place in carving, talking to the steward, writing to the attorney, settling with the servants, and equally saving her from all possible fatigue or exertion in every particular but that of directing her letters.
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- Jane Austen
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Jul 28, 2022 · Topics. Austen, Jane, 1775-1817. Mansfield Park, Young women -- Fiction, Children of the rich -- Fiction, Country homes -- Fiction, Adoptees -- Fiction, Cousins -- Fiction, Uncles -- Fiction, England -- Fiction. Publisher. New York : W.W. Norton. Collection.
Mansfield Park. Written February 1811 - June 1813. Published May 1814. "I have something in hand—which I hope on the credit of P. & P. will sell well, tho' not half so entertaining." —Jane Austen, letter to Frank Austen, July 3, 1813. Mansfield Park was Jane Austen’s third published novel and her first to be conceived and written when she ...
Mansfield Park is the third published novel by the English author Jane Austen, first published in 1814 by Thomas Egerton. A second edition was published in 1816 by John Murray, still within Austen's lifetime. The novel did not receive any public reviews until 1821.
Mansfield Park – What did Jane Austen Really Write? The Texts of 1814 and 1816. Brian Southam. Questions of textual transmission and textual authority have not hitherto arisen with Austen partly because the published texts are relatively problem-free and partly because the evidence is so thin.
