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Mansfield ParkOn the coverWivenhoe Park, Essex, John Constable, 1816
Mansfield Park
Sent as a poor relation to live among her wealthy cousins at Mansfield Park, the timid, watchful Fanny Price holds to her principles as flirtation, theatricals, and a charming, dangerous pair of newcomers unsettle the household. Austen’s most serious novel.
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The most complex and quietly radical of Austen's novels, a study of conscience, power, and the quiet heroism of standing firm. It rewards the patient reader with her deepest moral vision.
Regency England, where a great country estate quietly depended on distant colonial wealth, and a portionless young woman’s whole future hung on the goodwill of richer relatives and a good marriage.