The young people decide to put on a play after hearing about Tom’s friend, Mr. This upsets Fanny, who, over the years, has come to love Edmund as more than just a cousin. Meanwhile, Mary and Edmund begin to develop a romantic feeling between them. Rushworth’s estate, where Henry focuses his flirtation on Maria, leaving Julia feeling dejected. Together, the Bertram children, the Crawfords, and Fanny make a trip to Mr. Henry flirts with both Julia and Maria, despite Maria’s engagement. Tom returns from the West Indies, with Sir Thomas to follow in the late fall. They are both attractive and charming, and they quickly befriend the Bertrams. Grant’s half siblings, Mary and Henry Crawford, come to stay with her. Rushworth asks for Maria’s hand in marriage, and she and Sir Thomas both agree to it, on the condition that they wait until Sir Thomas returns from the West Indies to wed.
Maria, meanwhile, attracts the attentions of the rich but stupid Mr. Sir Thomas leaves for business in Antigua, and, frustrated by his son Tom’s lack of responsibility, takes him along. Grant, moves into the Parsonage with his wife, Mrs. Normally, Edmund should have inherited his fortune, but Tom, who has a gambling problem, must use the money set aside to pay back his debts.
Norris to move out of the Parsonage and into a house nearby. Fanny serves as a companion to Lady Bertram, and stays at home with her reclusive aunt when the rest of the family leaves to socialize. Only her cousin Edmund goes out of his way to make Fanny feel comfortable, establishing an intense bond between them.Īs Fanny grows older, she begins to feel more used to the lifestyle at Mansfield. Norris is downright tyrannical and verbally abusive in how she treats her niece.
In Fanny’s early years at Mansfield, her relations generally neglect her, and Mrs. She is homesick and misses her brother William, with whom she is extremely close. When Fanny first arrives at Mansfield, she is uncomfortable because of her lack of proper manners and exposure to luxury and wealth. Norris contrive to take in Fanny, who is her eldest daughter.Īt Mansfield, Fanny grows up with her four cousins: Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia. Together they have too many children to care for, so Lady Bertram, Sir Thomas, and Fanny’s other aunt Mrs. Price, Fanny’s mother and Lady Bertram’s sister, is of a lower class and struggles financially due to her poorly chosen marriage to naval officer Mr. As a child, Fanny is sent to live with her aunt, Lady Bertram, and her uncle, Sir Thomas, at their country estate, Mansfield Park. Mansfield Park tells the story of protagonist Fanny Price as she navigates her adolescence and young adulthood.
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