Mansfield Park Research & information Life as a Duchess

Life as a Duchess

Thirty-five beautiful girls

this book might teach you about the wasps that spend their entire lives sealed inside a fig

Magical Winter Solstice Ball

The tragedy of an entire country is captured in the spellbinding narrative of a handful of characters

Mansfield Park Research & information Life as a DuchessJane Austen's most ambitious novel, Mansfield Park, has always generated debate. Austen herself noted that debate when she conducted a reader survey, recording her acquaintances' mixed reviews in a booklet she entitled "Opinions of Mansfield Park." Is this novel's dutiful heroine, Fanny Price, admirable? Or is she (as Austen's own mother asserted) "insipid"? Is Fanny actually the heroine, or does that title belong more properly to her rival, Mary