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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