Mansfield Park (novel) facts for kids

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Mansfield Park

Title page of the first edition
Author	Jane Austen
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Publisher	Thomas Egerton
Publication date	July 1814
Preceded by	Pride and Prejudice
Followed by	Emma
Text	Mansfield Park at Wikisource

The young Fanny and the "well meant condescensions of Sir Thomas Bertram" on her arrival at Mansfield Park. A 1903 edition

Mansfield Park is the third published novel by 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.

The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood.

Characters

Perplexed Mr Rushworth contemplating the locked gate at the Sotherton ha-ha.

• Fanny Price, the niece of the family at Mansfield Park, with the status of a dependent poor relation.
• Lady Bertram, Fanny's aunt. Married to the wealthy Sir Thomas Bertram, she is the middle one of three sisters of the Ward family, the others being Mrs Norris and Fanny's mother, Mrs Price.
• Mrs Norris, elder sister of Lady Bertram, whose husband was the local parson until his death.
• Sir Thomas Bertram, baronet and husband of Fanny's aunt, owner of the Mansfield Park estate and one in Antigua.
• Thomas Bertram, elder son of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, seven years older than Fanny.
• Edmund Bertram, younger son of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, who plans to become a clergyman, six years older than Fanny.
• Maria Bertram, elder daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, three years older than Fanny.
• Julia Bertram, younger daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, two years older than Fanny.
• Dr Grant, incumbent of the Mansfield Park living after Mr Norris dies.
• Mrs Grant, wife of Mr Grant, and half-sister of Henry and Mary Crawford.
• Henry Crawford, brother of Miss Crawford and half-brother of Mrs Grant.
• Mary Crawford, sister of Mr Crawford and half-sister of Mrs Grant.
• Mr. Rushworth, Maria Bertram's fiancé, then husband.
• The Hon. John Yates, friend of Tom Bertram.
• William Price, Fanny's older brother.
• Mr Price, Fanny's father, an officer in the Marines who lives in Portsmouth.
• Mrs Price, born Frances (Fanny) Ward, Fanny's mother.
• Susan Price, Fanny's younger sister.
• Lady Stornoway, a society woman, complicit in Mr Crawford and Maria's flirtation.
• Mrs Rushworth, Mr Rushworth's mother and Maria's mother-in-law.
• Baddeley, the butler at Mansfield Park.

Adaptations

• 1983: Mansfield Park, BBC series directed by David Giles, starring Sylvestra Le Touzel as Fanny Price, Nicholas Farrell as Edmund Bertram and Anna Massey as Mrs Norris.
• 1987: Version and Diversion, a novel by Judith Terry retelling Mansfield Park through the eyes of a lady's maid named Jane Hartwell.
• 1997: Mansfield Park, a BBC Radio 4 adaptation dramatised in three parts by Elizabeth Proud, starring Hannah Gordon as Jane Austen, Amanda Root as Fanny, Michael Williams as Sir Thomas Bertram, Jane Lapotaire as Mrs Norris, Robert Glenister as Edmund Bertram, Louise Jameson as Lady Bertram, Teresa Gallagher as Mary Crawford and Andrew Wincott as Henry Crawford.
• 1999: Mansfield Park, film directed by Patricia Rozema, starring Frances O'Connor as Fanny Price and Jonny Lee Miller as Edmund Bertram (he also featured in the 1983 version, playing one of Fanny's brothers). This film alters several major elements of the story and depicts Fanny as a much stronger personality and makes her author of some of Austen's actual letters as well as her children's history of England. It emphasises Austen's disapproval of slavery.
• 2003: Mansfield Park, a radio drama adaptation commissioned by BBC Radio 4, starring Felicity Jones as Fanny Price, Benedict Cumberbatch as Edmund Bertram, and David Tennant as Tom Bertram.
• 2007: Mansfield Park, a television adaptation produced by Company Pictures and starring Billie Piper as Fanny Price and Blake Ritson as Edmund Bertram, was screened on ITV1 in the UK on 18 March 2007.
• 2011: Mansfield Park, a chamber opera by Jonathan Dove, with a libretto by Alasdair Middleton, commissioned and first performed by Heritage Opera, 30 July – 15 August 2011.
• 2012: Mansfield Park, stage adaptation by Tim Luscombe, produced by the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, toured the UK in 2012 and 2013.
• 2014: From Mansfield with Love, web series modernisation produced by Foot in the Door Productions began airing on YouTube
• 2016: Mount Hope: An Amish Retelling of Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, by Sarah Price
• 2017: Seeking Mansfield, a young adult retelling by novelist Kate Watson set in the theater scene of modern-day Chicago.

Images for kids

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  Fanny, led by Henry Crawford at her celebration ball.

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  Portsmouth Point by Thomas Rowlandson, 1811. Popular with sailors on leave from ships moored at Spithead

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  Mary Wollstonecraft, contemporary proto-feminist writer, and critic of Rousseau.

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  Landscape improvements – Humphry Repton's visiting card showing a typical design with himself surveying the property.

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  Henry Crawford visits Thornton Lacey, Edmund Bertram's future estate.

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  Lovers' Vows, 1796 edition. The controversial play is rehearsed at Mansfield Park during Sir Thomas Bertram's absence.

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  The Wedgwood medallion inscribed "Am I not a man and a brother", widely distributed amongst supporters of abolition.

See also

In Spanish: Mansfield Park para niños