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But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a Lieutenant of Marines, without education, fortune, or connections, did it very thoroughly. Norris began their career of conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year. Miss Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an income in the living of Mansfield and Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse.
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Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached to the Rev. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them. She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage. I am going to read from the novel’s opening: About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. The third does happen, but it doesn’t make us happy the way that, say, Elizabeth and Darcy, Anne and the Captain, Emma and Mr. Last year I did a workshop on Mansfield Park whose title was ‘what’s the matter with Fanny Price?’ I don’t want to forget that important question, but I want to approach it from a new direction, so this talk will be in, I think, three parts: my first part examines the question, ‘what’s the matter with Mansfield Park?’ meaning the estate, not the novel in the second I am going to look at Fanny by examining the novel’s presentation of her in a series of settings and in the last part I want to interweave some questions about Fanny and the men in her life: Fanny and William, Fanny and Henry Crawford, Fanny and Edmund the first two love affairs can’t happen, the first because it’s against the law of God and man, the second for reasons I want to investigate. I feel as though I need to approach it as Henry Crawford approaches the task of improving Sotherton, from more than one direction, though I hope with more sincerity. It’s the one I usually re-read only every few years, as, if I am honest, I feel it to cause a kind of darkening of mood I am not always willing to undergo. Often, when I mentioned I was writing about it, I was told, ‘oh, I haven’t read it for years’, or ‘I haven’t read it since I was in school and they made us read it’. It is, along with Northanger Abbey, the least re-read. 1 As we’ll see, it divided Jane Austen’s own family.
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Chapman, the great modern editor of her works, calls it ‘the most difficult’ and acknowledges that it divides readers, not least on the subject of its heroine, Fanny Price. I find Mansfield Park the most troubling, the most complicated of Jane Austen’s novels, and I am not alone. I have been thinking about this moment with trepidation ever since it became apparent that I was not going to be allowed to get away with just talking to you about Pride and Prejudice.