![]() (Summary by Karen Savage with text from Mansfield Park)įor further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.įor more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit. It is Fanny's story we follow in Mansfield Park. Sir Thomas provides assistance in helping his nephews into lines of work suitable to their education, and takes his eldest niece, Fanny Price, then ten years old, into his home to raise with his own children. Price appeals to her family, namely to her eldest sister and her husband, Sir Thomas Bertram, for help with her over-large family. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice." Some years later, pregnant with her ninth child, Mrs. Miss Frances, the youngest Ward sister, "married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very thoroughly. This novel was a pretty big departure from Austen's other works, and it was a bit of a shock coming after the much more light-hearted Pride and Prejudice, which was published just one year prior. ![]() LibriVox recording of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. Hitting the shelves in 1814, Mansfield Park was the third novel that Jane Austen published and the fourth that she completed. ![]()
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