In this passage, young Fanny Price is adjusting to life at Mansfield Park, the stately home of her cousins the Bertrams:
As additional background reading for my series on Mansfield Park and education, I've posted this excerpt from Chapter Two of Mansfield Park; the dialogue between busybody Mrs. Norris and her young nieces Maria and Julia Bertram. The deft comedy and natural exposition of Austen's writing stands in contrast to the preachy tone of other novels about education published during this era, such as, for example, Emily, a Moral Tale (1809) or the best-selling Coelebs in Search of a Wife. In this passage, young Fanny Price is adjusting to life at Mansfield Park, the stately home of her cousins the Bertrams: I've more to say here about a suggestion that Austen slipped in a reference to slavery in this passage.
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