![]() ![]() ![]() They contrive to put on a salacious play, Lovers’ Vows and only Fanny refuses to take part, fearing that her absent uncle, Sir Thomas, would not approve of the endeavour. During this period, siblings Henry and Mary Crawford, shallow but captivating friends of the Bertrams from town, arrive to stay. Norris – a satirically snobbish matriarch. As Fanny reaches maturity, Sir Thomas finds that his concerns in the West Indies are failing to yield the expected profits, and so travels to Antigua to set things straight, leaving Mansfield Park in the hands of Mrs. In return, she harbours a secret and steadfast love for her cousin. ![]() It is only Edmund that spends time with her as she grows into a quietly moral young woman. She is kept apart from her cousins both psychically and physically, her place in the household underlined at every opportunity. Brought to Mansfield Park at the age of ten to live amongst wealthy relatives, young Fanny is brought up in the home of Sir Thomas Bertram, alongside his children: Maria, Julia, and Edmund. Central to these difficulties is Fanny Price, the rather frail and moralistic heroine of the novel. Mansfield Park (1814) is perhaps the least popular of Jane Austen’s novels, at the very least it is the novel that has caused critics and readers the most problems. ![]()
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