Last year brought us the eight-part dramatisation of her final, unfinished novel 'Sanditon'. That fame is based on a mere six novels, of which 'Mansfield Park' is by far the longest.Įnthusiasm for Austen’s work continues unabated. Jane Austen died two years after Waterloo, and her fame has increased steadily since. Mansfield Park revisited should appeal to lovers of Jane Austen and also those who have not read Mansfield Park, especially, perhaps, teenagers. After her cousin Tom trashes his father’s stately home, she goes back to her feckless mother, but that turns out badly. The heroine, called Franny in this version, is a shy and unhappy teenager. This novel fast-forwards Jane Austen’s characters into the twenty-first century and shows them behaving in the same ways, but facing different futures. Human nature hasn’t changed very much in two hundred years, but society has. She is bullied by her aunt, her relations treat her as a skivvy, and her beloved cousin is in love with a much more glamorous young woman. When Fanny is taken in by Sir Thomas Bertram’s family, she must behave as they want or risk losing her home. Yet a Jane Austen heroine had no choice but to obey certain rules. The heroine, Fanny Price, is meek and conventional. Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s most controversial novel.
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