Mansfield Park

"Fanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary and Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before."

~ Vintage Classics

"Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage between February 1811 and 1813. It was published in May 1814 by Thomas Egerton, who published Jane Austen's two earlier novels, Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice.
When the novel reached a second edition in 1816, its publication was taken over by John Murray, who also published its successor, Emma."

~ Wikipedia

The story of the poor relative, Fanny Price, taken in by her Uncle, and made to feel gratitude for the rest of her life! Her cousin Edmund was the only one to show her kindness, which for Fanny soon grow to something more, but will Edmund come to realise her affection, before his are engaged elsewhere? 



Adaptations

2007

Mansfield Park
(TV movie based on the novel)
Billie Piper (Fanny Price) Blake Ritson (Mr Bertram)

1999

Mansfield Park
(Film based on the novel)
Frances O 'Connor (Fanny Price) Jonny Lee Miller (Mr Bertram)

1983

Mansfield Park
(TV mini-series based on the novel)
Sylvestra Le Touzel (Fanny Price) Nicholas Farrell (Mr Bertram)