t the age of ten, Frances “Fanny” Price is sent to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle in Northamptonshire because her parents can no longer afford to support all their children. For Fanny, the change is overwhelming. Once the eldest sister in a large family, she now becomes the youngest member of the elegant household at Mansfield Park. For the first time, Fanny feels the full weight of loneliness. Only her handsome and kind cousin Edmund is able to draw her out of her inner world. Published in 1814, Jane Austen’s third novel celebrates, through Fanny’s character, the virtues of steadfastness, stability, constancy, and resignation.
