Mansfield Park
Mass Market
Start Publishing LLC · Paperback · December 28, 2012
Fanny Price is a young girl from a relatively poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park.
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- Who it’s for
- Read for the tensions between family standing, good manners, and private feeling.
- Genres
- The Classics, Regency Romance, 19th-Century English Fiction
- Published
- Start Publishing LLC, December 28, 2012
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Fanny Price is a young girl from a relatively poor family, raised by her rich uncle and aunt, Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, at Mansfield Park. She grows up with her four cousins, Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia, but is always treated as inferior to them; only Edmund shows her real kindness. He is also the most virtuous of the siblings: Maria and Julia are vain and spoiled, while Tom is an irresponsible gambler.
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Over time, Fanny's gratitude for Edmund's kindness secretly grows into romantic love.
Manners and Feeling
Read for the tensions between family standing, good manners, and private feeling.
Come here for
- Austen’s sharp eye for family rank and unequal regard
- Romance complicated by gratitude and social difference
Expect
- A heroine treated as an outsider in her own family
- Affection that grows quietly over time
Where it sits
| Regency Romance | 80% |
|---|---|
| The Classics | 48% |
| 19th-Century English Fiction | 32% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Historical Fiction
- Regency Romance
- Viking Romance
- Authors
- Jane Austen, Margaret Drabble, Julia Quinn
- Publisher
- Start Publishing LLC
- Published
- December 28, 2012
- Format
- Paperback
- Reading lane
- Historical Fiction