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In Which We Rant and Rave in Favor of Mansfield Park

Posted in Jane Austen Quotes, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , on 28 July 2009 | 31 Comments »

Jane Austen’s novel Mansfield Park really gets a bum rap from critics and readers. Sometimes I think that I am its only advocate, campaigning to an empty room. Granted, it is not as emotionally charged as Sense and Sensibility or as light, bright and sparkly as Pride and Prejudice, but it does have an admirable [...]

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Mansfield Park: Mary Crawford – that peculiarly becoming temptress with a harp

Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , on 26 March 2009 | 7 Comments »

The harp arrived, and rather added to her beauty, wit, and good-humour; for she played with the greatest obligingness, with an expression and taste which were peculiarly becoming, and there was something clever to be said at the close of every air. Edmund was at the Parsonage every day, to be indulged with his favourite [...]

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Mansfield Park: Why does Fanny Price Rankle Our Ire?

Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 25 February 2009 | 25 Comments »

When her two dances with him were over, her inclination and strength for more were pretty well at an end; and Sir Thomas, having seen her walk rather than dance down the shortening set, breathless, and with her hand at her side, gave his orders for her sitting down entirely. From that time Mr. Crawford [...]

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Jane Austen and the Seven Deadly Sins: Pride and Vanity

Posted in Jane Austen Inspired, Jane Austen's Emma, Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's Persuasion, Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen's Works, tagged , , , , , on 10 December 2008 | 4 Comments »

Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot’s character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did; nor could the valet of any new made [...]

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Mansfield Park Revelation: I am Fanny Price! Are You?

Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, tagged , , , , , on 31 August 2008 | 9 Comments »

Newby Hall, Yorkshire In Defense of Fanny Price Even after the conclusion of Mansfield Park Madness, I am still ruminating over the novel and the characters. In order to put them to rest, I must get one thing off my chest! My journey to understand the novel has lead me to several insights and one [...]

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Mansfield Park Madness: Roundup & Conclusion: Winners Announced!

Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, tagged , , , , , on 31 August 2008 | 7 Comments »

She was of course only too good for him; but as nobody minds having what is too good for them, he was very steadily earnest in the pursuit of the blessing, and it was not possible that encouragement from her should be long wanting. The Narrator on Fanny Price & Edmund Bertram, Chapter 48  “Nobody [...]

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Mansfield Park: Jane Austen’s Collection of Opinions: Day 16 Give-away!

Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, tagged , , , , , , on 30 August 2008 | 10 Comments »

  OPINIONS  Mrs. Augusta Bramstone – owned that she thought S. & S. – and P. & P. downright nonsense, but expected to like M. P. better, & having finished the 1st vol. – flattered herself she had got through the worst.  We have the unique pleasure of still having Jane Austen’s collection of opinions [...]

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Mansfield Park Chapters 41-48: Summation, Musings & Discussion; Day 14 Give-away!

Posted in Jane Austen's Mansfield Park, Mansfield Park Madness, tagged , , , , , , , on 28 August 2008 | 13 Comments »

THE NOVEL Good sense, like hers, will always act when really called upon; and she found that she had been able to name him to her mother, and recall her remembrance of the name, as that of “William’s friend,” though she could not previously have believed herself capable of uttering a syllable at such a [...]

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