Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen · first published 1814
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Fanny Price is born to a poor family, but is sent to her mother's rich relations to be brought up with her cousins. There she is treated as an inferior by all except her cousin Edmund, whose kindness towards her earns him her steadfast love. Fanny is quiet and obedient and does not come into her own until her elder cousins leave the estate following a scandalous play put on in their father's absence. Fanny's loyalty and love is tested by the beautiful Crawford siblings. But their essentially weak natures and morals show them for what they really are, and allow Fanny to gain the one thing she t
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…children's: Swallows and Amazon series. Stranger in a Strange Land, The Man In The Maze, Tau Zero, Asimovs Foundation series. All Jane Austen's work: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Mansfield Park, Emma, and Northhanger Abbey.
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite fiction book?” ↗> Since the first published citation to Emma in 1978, Jane Austen’s works have been invoked 27 times in American legal decisions, including references to Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and, of course, Pride and Prejudice. Please add (<=27 judges) to the title. The article was neat, but the headline is clickbait.
on “Why Do So Many Judges Cite Jane Austen in Legal Decisions?” ↗…mentioned above is off. However, the figures you refer to are impressive and show the power of money to corrupt people to take advantage of others at all costs. In reading up on the Jane Austen novel Mansfield Park a couple months ago, I came across this startling assertion about how so much of Britain's wealth came from slavery: "By the end of the eighteenth century, the sugar plantations of the West Indies (like…
on “The history that James Baldwin wanted America to see” ↗