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Fanny returns home to Mansfield and brings her sister Susan with her. When Edmund talks to Mary about the affair between Maria and Henry, she does not condemn their actions, but rather complains about the fact that they were found out.
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Full Title: Mansfield Park; When Written: 1812-1813 Where...
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- Jane Austen’s Earlier Work in Contrast with Her Later Books
- Mansfield Park: Its Residents and relatives
- Fanny Price Comes to Live at Mansfield Park
- Finding A Friend in Edmund Bertram
- Fanny Becomes A Companion to Her Aunt
- Enter Henry and Mary Crawford
- Feelings Begin to Grow For Edmund
- Private Theatricals to While Away The Time
- Preparations For Maria’s Wedding in Question
- An Unwanted Suitor For Fanny
WhenPride and Prejudice came out in 1813, it completed the series of Jane Austen’s earlier writings, excepting only Northanger Abbey, which was not then in her hands for publication. The two novels that had already appeared were finished before she was four-and-twenty; those that followed were not begun till she was well over thirty, and I think th...
Mansfield Park is the ancestral home of the Bertram family, and Sir Thomas Bertram is the worthy, aristocratic, and high-bred, albeit somewhat pompous and formal, owner of the property, which is a very good one. He has two sons, Tom and Edmund, and two daughters, Maria and Julia. Lady Bertram is “a woman of very tranquil feelings, and a temper rema...
Fanny Price is accordingly sent for; and Miss Austen has painted nothing more true than the sufferings of a sensitive, timid child suddenly removed from the home, and plunged into a thoroughly uncongenial atmosphere. No one is unkind to her, but no one understands or shares her feelings; she has no companion among her cousins, and the elders, seein...
Edmund Bertram is the only one in his family in whom Fanny finds a kind friend. He has all his father’s sterling qualities, with much more gentleness and tenderness than Sir Thomas ever shows, and, having surprised Fanny in tears one day, he finds out by degrees how readily she responds to any kindness, and how easily she can be made happy by it. H...
When Fanny is fifteen, Mr. Norris dies; and Sir Thomas naturally supposes that Mrs. Norris will now take the opportunity of installing Fanny in her home. Fanny is therefore left at Mansfield Park, much to her own thankfulness, as well as Mrs. Norris’s; and her position there as a constant companion to her aunt becomes well defined. Lady Bertram can...
Henry and Mary Crawford are excellent pictures of the brilliant, worldly, amusing, clever young people, who are such well-known features of London society, but to the Bertrams, they are a novelty; and, as Mary Crawford has twenty thousand pounds, and is quite ready to be fallen in love with by Sir Thomas’s eldest son. Julia Bertram is equally ready...
Edmund makes Fanny his confidante in this—as in everything else—and talks to her constantly about the Crawfords; while Fanny, at first agreeing entirely in his estimate of them, by degrees begins to differ from him, and slowly wakes up to the pain of not yet of suspecting her own feelings for Edmund, but of seeing that she is no longer his first ob...
Edmund, indeed, believes that she might still become so; Fanny’s clearer sight sees that the attempt would be hopeless. The complications thicken when some private theatricals are started at Mansfield Park, ostensibly to while away the time till Sir Thomas returns, but really to amuse Tom Bertram and his friends. The description of them from first ...
Henry Crawford, having amused himself sufficiently with the Bertram sisters, departs also on some visits; and preparations go on for Maria’s wedding, though Sir Thomas, who has not met Mr. Rushworth before, is much disappointed in him. He had expected a very different son-in-law, and, beginning to feel grave on Maria’s account, tried to understand ...
With the departure of Maria, and Julia, who accompanies her sister, Fanny becomes more than ever the daughter of the house, and, is treated with real kindness by everyone but Mrs. Norris, who never can bear to see her established there as an equal. She is very happy in her present life, and when her favorite brother, William, returns from sea, and ...
Plot summary. The young Fanny and the "well meant condescensions of Sir Thomas Bertram" on her arrival at Mansfield Park. A 1903 edition. Ten-year-old Fanny Price is sent from her impoverished home in Portsmouth to live with the family at Mansfield Park.
Set in Regency-era England, Mansfield Park is a bildungsroman, charting the life of Fanny Price from childhood to adulthood. At the age of 10, Fanny is sent from her poverty-stricken home to live with her wealthy uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram.
