Mansfield Park

Henry Crawford: “Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman’s constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them e...

https://austensmansfield.wordpress.com/2018/05/03/acquainted-with-shakespeare/

‘Sir Thomas resolutely declined all dinner: he would take nothing, nothing till tea came — he would rather wait for tea. Still Mrs. Norris was at intervals urging something different; and in ...

https://austensmansfield.wordpress.com/2017/10/02/but-indeed-i-would-rather-have-nothing-but-tea/

“here is nobleness in the name of Edmund. It is a name of heroism and renown; of kings, princes, and knights; and seems to breathe the spirit of chivalry and warm affections.” — Mansfield P...

https://austensmansfield.wordpress.com/2017/03/22/quiet-kindness/

During my long hiatus from blogging here, I read a lot of posts about Mansfield Park. Here is a collection of them: Jane Austen’s Microcosm: Grumpy husbands, silly wives, and schemes of happin...

https://austensmansfield.wordpress.com/2017/01/31/links-january-2017-catch-up-edition/

Here are some articles that I have read over the past months and found interesting. Enjoy! The purposes of women’s education: a look at Mansfield Park and Emma (Blog: Jane Austen’s Microcos...

https://austensmansfield.wordpress.com/2016/12/17/links-december-2016/

“Dear Sister, — You have doubtless been for some time in expectation of hearing from Hampshire, and perhaps wondered a little we were in our old age grown such bad reckoners, but so it was, f...

https://austensmansfield.wordpress.com/2016/12/16/she-is-to-be-jenny/

“t was a very great event that Mr. Woodhouse should dine out, on the 24th of December” (ch. 13). On December 23, 1815, Jane Austen’s fourth novel, Emma, was published. Today is its two-hund...

https://austensmansfield.wordpress.com/2015/12/23/emmas-holiday-bicentennial/

This is eighth (and last) in a series of guest posts written by “Sophie” of A Reasonable Quantity of Butter in celebration of Mansfield Park’s bicentennial. *** As an admirer of Jane Austen...

https://austensmansfield.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/austens-opposites/

This is seventh in a series of guest posts written by “Sophie” of A Reasonable Quantity of Butter in celebration of Mansfield Park’s bicentennial. *** Squashed into the epilogue of ‘Mansf...

https://austensmansfield.wordpress.com/2014/12/29/happily-ever-after/

This is sixth in a series of guest posts written by “Sophie” of A Reasonable Quantity of Butter in celebration of Mansfield Park’s bicentennial. *** In many novels, much of the drama re...

https://austensmansfield.wordpress.com/2014/07/24/misguided-concealment/