It is clear to the readers that Fanny is in love with Edmund, though she is not aware of it. Fanny, as always, worries and judges as an observer of these events she fears that only she can see the Crawfords are manipulative and impious. Meanwhile, Mary, who is interested in Tom but switches her attention to Edmund when Tom rebuffs her, scoffs at Edmund’s religious calling while charming him into tentatively accepting her attention. Rushworth, Henry flirts with her and Julia-behavior that stokes conflict, as Julia is bitterly jealous of her sister, while Maria’s mistreatment of Mr. Mary is often described as a dark version of Austen’s previous heroines, with the sparkling wit and insight of Pride and Prejudice’s Lizzie Bennett but seen in a deeply negative light by Fanny.Īlthough Maria is engaged to the ridiculous but wealthy Mr. When Fanny is 16, the lively and attractive young Londoners Mary Crawford and her brother Henry arrive at the town of Mansfield to visit their relatives-the new parson and his wife-and soon befriend the Bertrams. When Fanny is 10 years old, her parents, to lessen their load, send her to live with her mother’s sister, who married the rich Sir Thomas Bertram and now lives at a country estate called Mansfield Park. Fanny is born in the city of Portsmouth to the large and relatively impoverished Price family.
Nevertheless, Mansfield Park is now known to have been Austen’s favorite of her own works and has-like all of Austen’s novels-been adapted many times into movies, TV series, and opera, among other media.ĭespite coming from a higher social status, Fanny’s mother married beneath her station-her husband is a former sailor who has a disability and cannot find work. As Austen herself pointed out, the novel was a departure from her previous work-Austen herself described it as “not half so entertaining” as Pride and Prejudice in a letter to her brother (primarily because its protagonist Fanny Price lacked the sparkling wit and insight of previous main characters).
Despite the sensational reception that her first two published novels, Sense and Sensibility and especially Pride and Prejudice, received, Mansfield Park was met tepidly. Renowned English novelist Jane Austen published her third novel, Mansfield Park, in 1814.
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