August 28, 2009
MANSFIELD PARK
Written by Jane Austen
“Depend upon it, you see but half. You see the evil, but you do not see the consolation. There will be little rubs and disappointments every where, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better; we find comfort somewhere.”
—page 46
Fun Facts
- Mansfield Park is perhaps, for Jane Austen fans, the most controversial and yet the least popular of her major novels.
- The name of Harry Potter character, Mrs. Norris, is J.K. Rowling’s nod to Jane Austen’s Mrs. Norris the officious, skinflint sister of Lady Beltram and reveals Austen’s influence on Rowling’s writing.
- Mansfield Park was the first of her novels that was not a revision of an earlier work.
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