Mansfield Park

First published in 1814, Mansfield Park is the novel of the maturity of Jane Austen, who had already been acclaimed for her novels Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice. The novel follows the coming of age of Fanny Price for ten years from the age of ten, when she is sent off to a wealthy uncle to be raised and educated. In the background, the economic, social and political events of the period make this one of the most complete and profound works by Jane Austen.