Mansfield Park
Fanny Price's story
Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, published in 1814.
It follows Fanny Price, a poor relation sent to live with wealthy relatives at their country estate, Mansfield Park.
The novel explores themes of morality, social class, and the contrast between quiet virtue and worldly charm.
It is generally considered Austen's most serious and least comic work.
Highborn but not noble
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- courtshipSeeking another's romantic favor
- dowryMarital property transfer
etiquette · manners · ballroom · matchmaking · chaperone · coming out · social climbing · class distinction
Regency-era English novelist
- English literatureWritten works from England
- NorthamptonshireEast Midlands county
- PortsmouthEnglish Channel naval hub
- Pride and PrejudiceRegency courtship novel
Removal from usual location
- belongingState of fitting in
- homeOne's personal residence
- educationSystematic development of mind
- ordinationClergy appointment ceremony
theatricals · moral corruption · social mobility · dependence · gratitude · memory · constancy · self-knowledge
Moral goodness or merit
- conscienceInternal moral sense
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
- dutyRequired moral task
propriety · righteousness · chastity · temperance · self-control · modesty · constancy · rectitude
gentry
Highborn but not noble
- aristocracyRule by hereditary elite
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
- courtshipSeeking another's romantic favor
dowry · etiquette · manners · ballroom · matchmaking · chaperone · coming out · social climbing · class distinction · entailment
Jane Austen
Regency-era English novelist
- English literatureWritten works from England
- NorthamptonshireEast Midlands county
- PortsmouthEnglish Channel naval hub
Pride and Prejudice · Emma · Northanger Abbey · epistolary · landed gentry
displacement
Removal from usual location
ordination · theatricals · moral corruption · social mobility · dependence · gratitude · memory · constancy · self-knowledge · temptation
virtue
Moral goodness or merit
- conscienceInternal moral sense
- integrityMoral soundness and consistency
- principlesFoundational moral beliefs
duty · propriety · righteousness · chastity · temperance · self-control · modesty · constancy · rectitude · moral education
- Class DramasPride and Prejudice, Downton Abbey, Great Expectations, My Fair Lady, Pygmalion
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- historical dramasBridgerton, Downton Abbey, Poldark, The Crown, Victoria
- period dramaperiod costumes, costume drama, Victorian era, period piece, Edwardian era
- Austen LocationsPemberley, Highbury, Northanger Abbey
- British novelsPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Great Expectations, Oliver Twist
Mansfield ParkPride and Prejudice
Regency courtship novel
Emma · Elizabeth Bennet · Northanger Abbey · Vanity Fair · Jane Eyre
Mansfield ParkWuthering Heights
Yorkshire gothic novel
Dangerous Liaisons · Tom Jones · Vanity Fair · Lady Chatterley's Lover · Madame Bovary
mans, park, parks, parked, parking, field, fields, fielded, fielding