Edmund and Mary then start to show interest in one another. With their fashionable London ways, they enliven life in Mansfield. The following year, Henry Crawford and his sister, Mary, arrive at the parsonage to stay with their half-sister, the wife of the new incumbent, Dr Grant. Maria accepts his proposal for his money. Mrs Norris, looking for a husband for Maria, finds Mr Rushworth, who is rich but weak-willed and considered stupid. A year later, Sir Thomas leaves to deal with problems on his plantation in Antigua, taking his spendthrift eldest son Tom. When Fanny is fifteen, Aunt Norris is widowed and the frequency of her visits to Mansfield Park increases, as does her mistreatment of Fanny. Her other aunt, Mrs Norris, the wife of the clergyman at the Mansfield parsonage, makes herself particularly unpleasant to Fanny. There she is mistreated by all but Edmund. The Bertrams have four children – Tom, Edmund, Maria and Julia – who are all older than Fanny. A 1903 editionįanny Price, at the age of ten, is sent from her impoverished home in Portsmouth to live with the family at Mansfield Park, the Northamptonshire country estate of Sir Thomas Bertram. The young Fanny and the "well meant condescensions of Sir Thomas Bertram" on her arrival at Mansfield Park.
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