Mansfield Park (Vintage Classics)
Author(s): Jane Austen
Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area, Henry and Mary Crawford, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary and Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before.
General Information
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- : Penguin Random House
- : Vintage Classics
- : 0.37
- : August 2008
- : 198mm X 130mm X 28mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Jane Austen
- : Paperback
- : 10-Aug
- : en
- : 823.7
- : 496
- : General & literary fiction; Classic fiction
More About The Product
'The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal' Virginia Woolf
Jane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16th December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath and then to Chawton in Hampshire. She wrote from a young age and Pride and Prejudice was begun when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally called First Impressions. It was initially rejected by the published she submitted it too and eventually published in 1813 after much revision. All four of her novels published in her lifetime were published anonymously. Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817. Northanger Abbey and Persuasion were published posthumously.