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	Gregson Davis - Jane Austen's Mansfield Park: the Antigua Connection
		A pivotal episode in the novel is Bertram's abrupt departure from Mansfield Park — the central backdrop of the plot — to the Leeward Island colony.
		An important character in the novel, Sir Thomas Bertram, who is the wealthy owner of the eponymous English country estate, Mansfield Park, is also the absentee proprietor of a sugar plantation in Antigua.
		Mansfield Park may therefore be interpreted as having an ethical subtext conveying a progressive viewpoint on the humanitarian issue of slavery.
	www.uwichill.edu.bb /bnccde/antigua/conference/papers/davis.html (3628 words)

	§5. "Mansfield Park". X. Jane Austen. Vol. 12. The Romantic Revival. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
		Jane Austen’s next novel, Mansfield Park, is less brilliant and sparkling than Pride and Prejudice, and, while entering no less subtly than Persuasion into the fine shades of the affections and feelings, it is the widest in scope of the six.
		In Mansfield Park, the study of Fanny Price is only one of several excellent studies of young women—the two Bertram girls and Miss Crawford being chief among the rest.
		Begun, probably, in the autumn of 1812, and finished in the summer of 1813, this was the first novel which Jane Austen had written without interruption, and remains the finest example of her power of sustaining the interest throughout a long and quiet narrative.
	www.bartleby.com /222/1005.html (372 words)

	Mansfield Park, By Jane Austen
		Mansfield Park: This is a website dedicated to Mansfield Park and includes a number of essays on the characters and the themes of the novel, as well as links to other Jane Austen and Mansfield Park resources.
		Mansfield Park has the dubious distinction of being disliked by more of Jane Austen's fans than any of her other novels, even to the point of spawning "Fanny Wars" in internet discussion forums.
		Mansfield Park, therefore, was conceived from its very beginning by a more mature Jane Austen than the previous two novels—written, as they were, first by the young Austen (~ 20 years old) and then the older Austen (~ 36).
	www.austen.com /mans (1930 words)

	Jane Austen - 'Mansfield Park'
		“Mansfield Park” is the most condensed and complex novel ever written by Jane Austen, and is her first novel that was conceived, written, and published at her mature years.
		The subtle battle between good and evil is one between the moral forces of the serene Mansfield Park, and the amoral intruders whose “London values” pose a threat to the traditional ways of Mansfield.
		Fanny’s philosophical ideas are an indication of her intellectual advancement, which was made possible by the opportunities she now had at Mansfield Park.
	bookreviews.nabou.com /reviews/mansfield_park.html (685 words)

	Broadview Press: Mansfield Park
		“Unlike Jane Austen’s earlier novels, Mansfield Park is embedded within a specific historical moment, and the Introduction to this Broadview edition splendidly brings out the novel’s engagement with a range of contemporary controversies, from female education to the slave trade and the proper use of wealth.
		Mansfield Park is Austen’s darkest, and most complex novel.
		Mansfield Park explores important issues such as slavery (the source of the Bertrams’ wealth), the oppressive nature of idealized femininity, and women’s education.
	www.broadviewpress.com /bvbooks.asp?BookID=238 (359 words)

	Mansfield Park (1999): Frances O'Connor, Johnny Lee Miller, Alessandro Nivola, Embeth Davidtz - PopMatters Film Review
		n Mansfield Park's official Miramax website, the book upon which the film is loosely based is heralded as "Jane Austen's third and most controversial novel." This claim, directed at Mansfield Park the novel, seems an attempt to re-invigorate interest in a text oftentimes considered Austen's blandest.
		Fanny's letters describe life at Mansfield Park as a "quick succession of busy nothings," alleviated only by her writing rituals and alliance with her cousin Edmund (Jonny Lee Miller), youngest son of the Bertrams (Harold Pinter and Lindsay Duncan), who intends to enter the parsonage, conveniently located on the grounds of the estate.
		And yet, at times Rozema does inject the story, set in 1806, with a '90's "sense and sensibility." The worst case of this is a sporadic digression depicting Fanny's increasing comprehension of her uncle's dealings in the Antiguan slave trade.
	www.popmatters.com /film/mansfield-park.html (1331 words)

	Mansfield Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen.
		Between this and an illness suffered by Tom (in the aftermath of a drinking binge), the situation at Mansfield Park is dire, and Fanny is recalled to be of both use and comfort to her aunt and uncle.
		Mansfield Park was written at Chawton Cottage, and published in July 1814 by the Mr.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mansfield_Park (1061 words)

	Mansfield Park
		Mansfield Park (1999) is a BBC production based on the novel of the same name by Jane Austen.
		Mansfield Park has always been considered Jane Austen's most autobiographical work, and many consider it her most lifeless and her most excessively verbose.
		The girl, Fanny Price, arrives at Mansfield Hall, only to find out that she is not "just visiting," and that she is to be nearly a servant, and is looked down upon by the other members in the house, including her distant cousins, Maria and Julia, who are about her age.
	www.scoopy.com /mansfieldpark.htm (1387 words)

	The Modern Library Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
		Mansfield Park shows Austen as a mature novelist with an almost unparalleled ability to render character and an acute awareness of her world and how it was changing.
		Mansfield Park is as amusing as any of Austen's novels, but, according to the critic Tony Tanner, it is also arguable that it is 'her most profound novel (indeed...
		She continued to revise her earlier unpublished work, and in 1811 a version of Elinor and Marianne was published as Sense and Sensibility, followed two years later by Pride and Prejudice, a reworking of First Impressions.
	www.randomhouse.com /modernlibrary/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679641092 (507 words)

	SparkNotes: Mansfield Park: Chapters 1-3
		The introductory chapters of this novel signify that Mansfield Park will take as its subject social mobility, which also happens to be the subject of all of Jane Austen's other novels and, for that matter, the subject of most of the novels written in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
		Most of the inhabitants of Mansfield Park are secretly happy to see Sir Thomas go; his daughters view him as a stern master who thwarts their girlish pleasures, and Fanny is mostly afraid of him.
		Norris, the reverend's wife, lives near her sister Lady Bertram; Rev. Norris is the minister to the parish attached to Mansfield Park.
	www.sparknotes.com /lit/mansfieldpark/section1.html (1418 words)

	S-Cool! - AS & A2 Level English Literature Revision Guide
		Mansfield Park is one novel used to defend her from this charge: Sir Thomas Bertram’s extended stay at his Antigua plantation can be seen as an oblique comment on the slave economy.
		Mansfield Park, famously featuring ‘My Fanny’, was, in 1814, the first of Jane Austen’s mature novels to be published.
		Mansfield Park is the story of two families, the Bertrams and the Crawfords, and, whatever angle you choose to adopt towards the characters, it is also the story of how two determinedly moral, upright characters remain standing, long after the more brilliant and more sparkling have fallen.
	www.s-cool.co.uk /topic_principles.asp?loc=pr&topic_id=5&subject_id=4 (268 words)

	Full text and plot summary of Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
		The novel is founded upon the solid and stern but kind-hearted Sir Thomas Bertram, owner of Mansfield Park.
		Mansfield Park is highly regarded by Austen followers as a tale of character and sensibility very much along the lines of Emma and confronting similar issues of marriage and social class while acting as a serious critique of Regency values.
		Mansfield Park tells of the departure of Sir Thomas and the moral decline of his household into flirtatious and inappropriate relationships and dubious acting in forbidden theatricals to make possible the demonstration of their illicit desires.
	www.bibliomania.com /0/0/6/9 (314 words)

	Mansfield Park Essays - Sexuality and Desire in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park
		In a letter to her brother dated 1814, Jane Austen boasted about a compliment she had received from a friend on her most recent work, Mansfield Park: "It's the most sensible novel he's ever read" (263).
		In Mansfield Park, the answer appears blaringly before us, as we repeatedly witness sexuality and desire represented in the darkest of terms, and often resulting in the most sinister of outcomes.
		The Bertrams and Fanny Price reside at Mansfield Park peacefully enough until their quiet, domestic world is turned upside down by outsiders...
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=18184 (1546 words)

	SPLICEDwire "Mansfield Park" review (1999)
		The latest Jane Austen novel lovingly adapted to film, "Mansfield Park" features a predictably resolute heroine named Fanny Price, a 10-year-old girl from a poor family who is sent to live with wealthy relations at their country estate.
		As Fanny is a writer herself -- regaling her younger sister with lively tales of the goings on at Mansfield Park and ruminating on the business-like machinations of society marriage in pre-Victorian England -- she becomes more than just another Austen heroine.
		The first thing her aunt says to her is "Let's have a look at you...Well, I'm sure you have other qualities." When her uncle thinks she's out of earshot, he tells his daughters, "she's not your equal," and he insists she live in the servants' wing to prevent her from tempting her male cousins.
	www.splicedwire.com /99reviews/mansfield.html (703 words)

	The Toby Press: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
		Mansfield Park is one of Austen's more sophisticated novels; together with the gently satirical depiction of polite society it exposes the ills of class prejudice, and before achieving the requisite happy ending, the people of Mansfield Park must cope with adultery, betrayal, social ruin and ruptured friendships.
		Mansfield Park is introduced by H.M. Daleski, formerly President of the International Dickens Society and Chairman of the Department of English at the Hebrew University.
		He is the author of Dickens and the Art of Analogy, The Divided Heroine, Unities: Studies in the English Novel, and other books.
	www.tobypress.com /books/mansfieldpark.htm (176 words)

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		IMDb: Mansfield Park (1999) - cast overview and links for Patricia Rozema's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel.
		Metacritic.com: Mansfield Park - A cross-section of reviews from the country's top critics, crystallized in a metascore.
		Mansfield Park - official site from Miramax for the film starring Frances O'Connor.
	www.phone-soft.org /layout-3/cyber-world/o8590i.htm (137 words)

	Jane Austen, Peter Conrad -Mansfield Park (Everymans Library, No 52) - Jane Austen
		Mansfield park A Novel Collected Works of Jane Austen 3 volumes.
		Mansfield Park (New York Public Library Collectors Editions).
		Mansfield Park (Modern Library of the Worlds Best Books).
	www.bookzsearch.com /239956mansfield_park_everymans_library_no_52.html (41 words)

	A Calendar for Mansfield Park
		The central events of Mansfield Park as now represented in Austen's text dovetail most consistently into the years 1808-9, though there is equally an argument for 1796-7 if we see the indeterminate time in the theatricals & later elopement.
		I preface this calendar with a summary of recent work on the novel, for this summary suggests how important it is to study the text of the book carefully before we go about to interpret events and characters as alluding to any specific people or political events in Austen's period.
		Henry at Park next morning very early 31: 302; he shows letters to Fanny; Admiral to him, Secretary of the First Lord to Admiral's friend, Sir Charles, and Sir Charles to Admiral; he tells her of his love and begs her to marry him; comes to dine 31:302-3, 306
	mason.gmu.edu /~emoody/mp.calendar.html (4814 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - Patricia Rozema - 1999 - Mansfield Park Movies Review
		The novel Mansfield Park has one of the most irritatingly prim heroines and what seems to me a far-too-long middle mired in putting on a somewhat scandalous play while the master of the manse is gone.
		I was impressed with the conception and adaptation of Mansfield Park to film.
		Manfield Park is nearly as good as the Ang Lee/Emma Thompson Sense and Sensibility and the boldest of recent Austen adaptation, Amy Herckling Clueless (with Alicia Silverstone).
	www.toxicuniverse.com /review.php?rid=10005545 (805 words)

	Movie (Metro Times Detroit)
		Director Patricia Rozema certainly thinks so, and in her spirited, revisionist version of Mansfield Park she transforms the novel’s heroine, Fanny Price, into Austen’s onscreen alter ego.
		But 10-year-old Fanny can’t foresee how radically her future will be altered when she’s sent to live with her wealthy aunt’s family at their massive country estate, Mansfield Park.
		A battle of wits commences that brings to the surface all the harsh realities that underlie their rarefied existence, including the fact that the Bertrams’ prosperity comes at the expense of slaves who work their West Indies plantation.
	www.metrotimes.com /editorial/review.asp?id=52434 (359 words)

	AUSTERLITZ - LoveToKnow Article on AUSTERLITZ
		111 1803 for Uthough Pride and Prejudice is the novel which in the mind the public is most intimately associated with Miss Austens me, both Mansfield Park and Emma are finer achievements cnce riper and richer and more elaborate.
		Entirely satisfactory as is ide and Prejudice so far as it goes, it is, however, thin beside I niceness of analysis of motives in Emma and the wonderful inagement of two housefuls of young lovers that is exhibited Mansfield Park.
		Miss Austens inability to find)ublisher for these stories, and for Northanger A bbey, written 1798 (although it is true that she sold that MS.
	www.1911ency.org /A/AU/AUSTERLITZ.htm (359 words)

	Broadview Press: Mansfield Park
		“Unlike Jane Austen’s earlier novels, Mansfield Park is embedded within a specific historical moment, and the Introduction to this Broadview edition splendidly brings out the novel’s engagement with a range of contemporary controversies, from female education to the slave trade and the proper use of wealth.
		Mansfield Park is Austen’s darkest, and most complex novel.
		Sturrock’s introduction provides a nuanced view of Mansfield Park as well as judicious treatment of the critical debates the novel has prompted in recent years.
	www.broadviewpress.com /bvbooksprintable.asp?BookID=238 (359 words)

	Jane Austen's Writings
		The well-ordered (if somewhat vacuous) house at Mansfield Park, and its country setting, play an important role in the novel, and are contrasted with the squalour of Fanny's own birth family's home at Portsmouth, and with the decadence of London.
		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 fearfulness and timidity.
		There she meets the entertaining Henry Tilney; later, on a visit to his family's house (the "Northanger Abbey" of the title) she learns to distinguish between the highly charged calamities of Gothic fiction and the realities of ordinary life (which can also be distressing in their way).
	www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/janewrit.html (359 words)

	Jane Austen's Writings
		The well-ordered (if somewhat vacuous) house at Mansfield Park, and its country setting, play an important role in the novel, and are contrasted with the squalour of Fanny's own birth family's home at Portsmouth, and with the decadence of London.
		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 fearfulness and timidity.
		image of funny cover illustration for a Spanish translation (`El Parque de Mansfield') [Courtesy Goucher College]
	www.pemberley.com /janeinfo/janewrit.html (3940 words)

	Oxford University Press: Mansfield Park: Jane Austen
		This new edition places Mansfield Park in its Regency context and elucidates the theatrical background that pervades the novel.
		At the age of ten, Fanny Price leaves the poverty of her Portsmouth home to be brought up among the family of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, in the chilly grandeur of Mansfield Park.
		Jane Stabler is editor of the Longman Reader on Byron (1998) and the author of Burke to Byron, Barbauld to Baillie, 1790-1830 (2001) and Byron, Poetics and History (2002).
	www.oup.com /us/catalog/general/subject/?view=usa&ci=019280264X (3940 words)

	Amazon.com: Video: Mansfield Park (1999)
		...And so we have "Mansfield Park", "loosely" based on the Jane Austen novel of same name (although, as is mentioned in the credits, Austen's letters and non-fiction writings are also used, particularly for dialogue).
		This movie is not for those of you who just finished reading the novel Mansfield Park and plan to enjoy the movie that was based on the book.
		Taken on its own, the film is a fairly enjoyable period piece, and Frances O'Connor is a winning heroine; but no way in the world does this movie deserve the title of "Mansfield Park".
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005BCPC?v=glance (3940 words)

	Mansfield (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen.
		The Mansfield Decision was a legal ruling by a British judge that there was no legal basis for slavery in England, effectively abolishing the practice of slavery in the country (although not British colonies).
		Mansfield is also the name of a small hamlet in Ayrshire, Scotland.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mansfield_%28disambiguation%29 (208 words)

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		Etym: Named for a sneaky, spiteful character in the Jane Austen novel Mansfield Park.
		Godric's Hollow: Where Harry's parents were living when they were killed by Voldemort.
		Godric Gryffindor: Etym: From Old English god, which may mean "good", + ric "ruler".
	www.m5p.com /~pravn/hp/record-2.txt (208 words)

	The Toby Press: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
		Mansfield Park is one of Austen's more sophisticated novels; together with the gently satirical depiction of polite society it exposes the ills of class prejudice, and before achieving the requisite happy ending, the people of Mansfield Park must cope with adultery, betrayal, social ruin and ruptured friendships.
		Mansfield Park is introduced by H.M. Daleski, formerly President of the International Dickens Society and Chairman of the Department of English at the Hebrew University.
		The Toby Press: Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
	www.tobypress.com /books/mansfieldpark.htm (208 words)

	Amazon.com: Mansfield Park (Penguin Classics): Books
		Readers who liked "Pride and Prejudice" because it had a rich man attracted to a witty woman, will either find nothing in "Mansfield Park" to engage their enthusiasms, or, as is not uncommon, they will actually find themselves drawn to the book's sometimes-antagonists, the Crawfords.
		Part of the answer is that in "Mansfield Park" the stakes are higher, which squeezes out the levity of "Pride and Prejudice".
		Each of the six novels she completed in her lifetime are, in effect, comic cautionary tales that end happily for those characters who play by the rules and badly for those who don't.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140434143?v=glance (3542 words)

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