About the Book
Mansfield Park is a novel written by the Englishwoman Jane Austen in 1814, the first entirely written in her mature years, since she worked there during the year 1813. Often considered the most experimental of all her writings, It is more difficult than the others, and her principal character, the timid and silent Fanny Price, is a paradoxical heroine, which hardly appetites the reader. However, Mansfield Park is undoubtedly a success, since the entire draw is exhausted in just six months and brings to its author the most important gains it has hitherto derived from a single publication. Jane Austen's only novel, which takes place over a period of ten years, follows the evolutionary stages of heroine since she was ten years old and could be the forerunner of novels of Jane Eyre or David Copperfield. But, as the author has chosen to give it the name of the property, it is Mansfield Park, the place of life of the family of the baronet Sir Thomas Bertram, who is, so to speak, the central figure. Fanny Price, the poor little cousin greeted by charity, must first learn to feel at home before finally becoming the moral conscience. The political and economic context is particularly present and plays a part in the plot: Sir Thomas has spent many months in Antigua, in the Caribbean, restoring the situation on his plantations (where slaves work), and his long absence leaves too much Liberties to his children. With William Price, Fanny's elder brother, who participates in the military expeditions in the West Indies and the Mediterranean, is evoked the situation of war with France.....
About the Author: Jane Austen (born on December 16, 1775 in Steventon, Hampshire, England) and died on July 18, 1817 in Winchester, in the same county, is a woman of English literature. Her realism, her biting social criticism and her mastery of free indirect discourse, her offbeat humor and her irony made her one of the most widely read and loved English writers. All her life, Jane Austen remained in a closely knit family unit belonging to the English little gentry. She owes her education largely to her father and her elder brothers, as well as to her own readings. The unfailing support of his family is essential for his evolution as a professional writer3,4. Jane Austen's artistic apprenticeship extends from her early teens to her twenty-fifth year. During this period she experimented with various literary forms, including the epistolary novel she experimented with before abandoning her, and wrote and reworked three major novels, while beginning a fourth. From 1811 to 1816, with the publication of Sense and Sensibility (published anonymously in 1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814) and Emma (1816). Two other novels, Northanger Abbey (completed in 1803) and Persuasion, are both the subject of a posthumous publication in 1818; In January 1817, she began her last novel, finally entitled Sanditon, which she could not finish before her death. Jane Austen's work is, among other things, a critique of the sentimental novels of the second half of the eighteenth century and belongs to the transition that leads to the literary realism of the nineteenth century. Jane Austen's intrigues, although essentially of a comic nature, that is, with a happy outcome, highlight women's dependence on marriage for social status and economic security. Like Samuel Johnson, one of his major influences, she is particularly interested in moral issues. Because of the anonymity it seeks to preserve, its reputation is modest during its lifetime, with some favorable criticism. In the nineteenth century, his novels were admired only by the literary elite. However, the publication in 1869 of A Memoir of Jane Austen, written by his nephew, makes it known to a wider audience
