Mansfield Park

"The most perfect artist among women, the writer whose books are immortal." -Virginia WoolfFanny Price's rich relatives offer her a place in their home so that she can be properly brought up. However, Fanny's childhood is a lonely one as she is never allowed to forget her place. Her only ally is her cousin Edmund. When her cousins befriend two glamorous new young people who have arrived in the area, Henry and Mary Crawford, Edmund starts to grow close to Mary and Fanny finds herself dealing with feelings she has never experienced before.Biographie de l'auteurJane Austen was born in Steventon rectory on 16 December 1775. Her family later moved to Bath, then to Southampton and finally to Chawton in Hampshire. She began writingPride and Prejudice when she was twenty-two years old. It was originally calledFirst Impressions and was initially rejected by the publishers and only published in 1813 after much revision. She published four of her novels in her lifetime,Sense and Sensibility (1811),Pride and Prejudice (1813),Mansfield Park (1814) andEmma (1816). Jane Austen died on 18th July 1817.Northanger Abbey andPersuasion were both published posthumously in 1818.Amanda Vickery is the writer and presenter of BBC2's At Home with the Georgians based on her bookBehind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (2009). Amanda is a Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. Her first bookThe Gentleman's Daughter (1998) won the Wolfson, the Whitfield and the Longman-History today prizes. Amanda Vickery is also the editor ofWomen, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present (2001) andGender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (2006). Among her radio credits are presenting the popular Radio 4 showsA History of Private Life andVoices from the Old Bailey.