Jane Austen

Mansfield park illustrated Jane Austen

Education is a major theme in Mansfield Park. The errors and sins of Tom, Maria and Julia Bertram on one hand and Mary and Henry Crawford on the other are substantially the result of flawed upbringing and failed education. One of the many fascinating things about Mansfield Park is that the romance between Fanny and Edmund... isn't a romance. ... He's kind to her when they're younger, but later on he becomes infatuated with the irresistible Mary Crawford, while Fanny is courted by her brother Henry. Mansfield Park tells the story of protagonist Fanny Price as she navigates her adolescence and young adulthood. As a child, Fanny is sent to live with her aunt, Lady Bertram, and her uncle, Sir Thomas, at their country estate, Mansfield Park. Mrs.