by Jane Austen
First published 1814
Fanny Price has grown up as the poor relation at Mansfield Park, dependent on her plantation-owning uncle's charity. She watches the family's behavior with quiet observation, noting the selfishness that drives their actions. Her heart belongs to her cousin Edmund, whose kindness has been her anchor in this household where she never quite belongs. Then visitors arrive from London, bringing with them a dangerous energy that disrupts the established order at Mansfield Park. These charismatic outsiders awaken desires and ambitions that threaten to tear apart everything Fanny has known. As scandal brews and loyalties shift, she must navigate between her feelings for Edmund and the moral compromises that surround her. The arrival of these strangers forces everyone at Mansfield Park to confront their true natures, revealing the gap between public virtue and private want.
Genres: fiction, classics, classic-literature, historical-fiction, british-literature, 19th-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family
Setting: Mansfield Park
Period: 19th-Century
496 pages · Paperback · Penguin Books