Table of Contents From the Pages of Mansfield Park Title Page Copyright Page Jane Austen The World of Jane Austenand Mansfield Park Introduction Mansfield Park CHAPTER I CHAPTER II CHAPTER III CHAPTER IV CHAPTER V CHAPTER VI CHAPTER VII CHAPTER VIII CHAPTER IX CHAPTER X CHAPTER XI CHAPTER XII CHAPTER XIII CHAPTER XIV CHAPTER XV CHAPTER XVI CHAPTER XVII CHAPTER XVIII CHAPTER XIX CHAPTER XX CHAPTER XXI CHAPTER XXII CHAPTER XXIII CHAPTER XXIV CHAPTER XXV CHAPTER XXVI CHAPTER XXVII CHAPTER XXVIII CHAPTER XXIX CHAPTER XXX CHAPTER XXXI CHAPTER XXXII CHAPTER XXXIII CHAPTER XXXIV CHAPTER XXXV CHAPTER XXXVI CHAPTER XXXVII CHAPTER XXXVIII CHAPTER XXXIX CHAPTER XL CHAPTER XLI CHAPTER XLII CHAPTER XLIII CHAPTER XLIV CHAPTER XLV CHAPTER XLVI CHAPTER XLVII CHAPTER XLVIII Endnotes Inspired by Mansfield Park Comments& Questions For Further Reading From the Pages of Mansfield Park ???Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.??? (page 6) ???An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.??? (page 40) The politeness which she had been brought up to practise as a duty made it impossible for her to escape; while the want of that higher species of self-command, that just consideration of others, that knowledge of her own heart, that principle of right which had not formed any essential part of her education, made her miserable under it. (page 80) ???Oh, do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.??? (page 84) ???A clergyman has nothing to do but to be slovenly and selfish???read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work, and the business of his own life is to dine.??? (page 97) ???Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.??? (page 97) ???There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!??? (pages 180-181) ???A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it.??? (page 184) ???Human nature needs more lessons than a weekly sermon can convey.??? (page 215) To her, the cares were sometimes almost beyond the happiness; for, young and inexperienced, with small means of choice, and no confidence in her own taste???the ???how she should be dressed??? was a point of painful solicitude. (page 220) ???A sermon, well delivered, is more uncommon even than prayers well read.??? (page 295) She saw nobody in whose favour she could wish to overcome her own shyness and reserve. The men appeared to her all coarse, the women all pert, everybody underbred. (page 343) The indignities of stupidity, and the disappointments of selfish passion, can excite little pity. (page 403) Published by Barnes & Noble Books 122 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10011 www.barnesandnoble.com/classics Mansfield Park was first published in three volumes in 1814. Published in 2004 by Barnes & Noble Classics with new Introduction, Notes, Biography, Chronology, Inspired By, Comments & Questions, and For Further Reading. Introduction, Notes, and For Further Reading Copyright ?? 2004 by Amanda Claybaugh. Note on Jane Austen, The World of Jane Austen and Mansfield Park, Inspired by Mansfield Park, and Comments & Questions Copyright ?? 2004 by Barnes & Noble, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Barnes & Noble Classics and the Bames & Noble Classics colophon aretrademarks of Barnes & Noble, Inc. Mansfield Park ISBN-13: 978-1-59308-154-6 ISBN-10: 1-59308-154-5 eISBN : 978-1-411-43265-9 LC Control Number 2004102767 Produced and published in conjunction with: Fine Creative Media, Inc. 322 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10001 Michael J. Fine, President and Publisher Printed in the United States of America QM 7 9 10 8 6 Jane Austen The English novelist Jane Austen was born December 16, 1775, the seventh of eight children, in the Parsonage House of Steventon, Hampshire, where she spent her first twenty-five years. During her brief lifetime Austen witnessed political unrest, revolution, war, and industrialization, yet these momentous events are not the central subjects of her finely focused novels. Rather, Austen wrote of her immediate experience: the microcosm of the country gentry and its class-conscious insularity. Jane???s father, the Reverend George Austen, was the erudite country rector of Steventon, and her mother, Cassandra (n??e Leigh), was descended from an aristocratic line of learned clergymen. By no means wealthy, the Austens nonetheless enjoyed a comfortable, socially respectable life, and greatly prized their children???s education. Jane and her beloved elder (and only) sister, Cassandra, were schooled in Southampton and Reading for a short period, but most of their education took place at home. Private theatrical performances in the barn at Steventon complemented Jane???s studies of French, Italian, history, music, and eighteenth-century fiction. An avid reader from earliest childhood, Jane began writing at age twelve, no doubt encouraged by her cultured and affectionate family. Indeed, family and writing were her great loves; despite a fleeting engagement in 1802, Austen never married. Her first two novels, ???Elinor and Marianne??? and ???First Impressions,??? were written while at Steventon but never published in their original form. Following her father???s retirement, Jane moved in 1801 with her parents and sister to Bath. That popular watering hole, removed from the country life Jane preferred, presented the sociable young novelist with a wealth of observations and experience that would later emerge in her novels. Austen moved to Southampton with her mother and sister after the death of her father in 1805. Several years later the three women settled in Chawton Cottage in Hampshire, where Austen resided until the end of her life. She relished her return to the countryside and, with it, a renewed artistic vigor that led to the revision of her early novels. Sense and Sensibility, a reworking of ???Elinor and Marianne,??? was published in 1811, followed by Pride and Prejudice, a reworking of ???First Impressions,??? two years later. Austen completed four more novels (Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion) in the Chawton sitting room. Productive and discreet, she insisted that her work be kept secret from anyone outside the family. All of her novels were published anonymously, including the posthumous release, thanks to her brother Henry, of Northanger Abbey and Persuasion. The last years of Austen???s life were relatively quiet and comfortable. Her final, unfinished work, Sanditon, was put aside in the spring of 1817, when her health sharply declined and she was taken to Winchester for medical treatment of what appears to have been Addison???s disease or a form of lymphoma. Jane Austen died there on July 18, 1817, and is buried in Winchester Cathedral. The World of Jane Austen and Mansfield Park 1775 The American Revolution begins in April. Jane Austen is born on December 16 in the Parsonage House in Steventon, Hampshire, England, the seventh of eight children (two girls and six boys) 1778 Frances (Fanny) Burney publishes Evelina , a seminal work in the development of the novel manners. 1781 German philosopher Immanuel Kant publishes his Critique of pure reason. 1782 The American Revolution ends. Fanny Burney???s novel Cecilia is published. 1783 Cassandra and Jane Austen begin their formal education in Southampton, followed by study in Reading. 1788 King George III of England suffers his first bout of mental illness, leaving the country in a state of uncertainty and anxiety. George Gordon, Lord Byron, is born. 1789 George III recuperates. The French Revolution begins. William Blake???s Songs of innocence is published. 1791 American political philosopher Thomas Paine publishes the first part of the Rights of Woman . 1792 Percy Bysshe Shelley is born. Mary Wollstonecraft publishes A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. 1793 A shock wave passes through Europe with the execution of King Louis XVI of France and, some months later, his wife, Marie-Antoinette; the Reign of Terror begins. England declares war on France. Two of Austen???s brothers, Francis (1774-1865) and Charles (1779-1852), serve in the Royal Navy, but life in the countryside of Steventon remains relatively tranquil. 1795 Austen begins her first novel, "Elinor and Marianne,"written as letters (the fragments of his early work are now lost); she will later revise the material to become the novel Sense and...
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