Monster Essays - Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park
This novel, originally published in 1814, is the first of Jane Austen's novels not to be a
revised version of one of her pre-1800 writings. Mansfield Park has sometimes been
considered atypical of Jane Austen, as being solemn and moralistic, especially when
contrasted with the immediately preceding Pride and Prejudice and the immediately
following Emma. Poor Fanny Price is brought up at Mansfield Park with her rich uncle
and aunt, where only her cousin Edmund helps her with the difficulties she suffers from
the rest of the family, and from her own fearfuln....
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