Mansfield Park Research & information Forget Amityville

Forget Amityville

He has mostly buried the painful memories of his childhood

The tragedy of an entire country is captured in the spellbinding narrative of a handful of characters

Life as a Duchess

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Mansfield Park Research & information Forget AmityvilleJane Austen's most ambitious novel, Mansfield Park, has always generated debate. Austen herself noted that debate when she conducted a reader survey, recording her acquaintances' mixed reviews in a booklet she entitled "Opinions of Mansfield Park." Is this novel's dutiful heroine, Fanny Price, admirable? Or is she (as Austen's own mother asserted) "insipid"? Is Fanny actually the heroine, or does that title belong more properly to her rival, Mary