Book description
When the gorgeous Henry Crawford and his pretty sister Mary come to
Mansfield Park, they've no idea what a disturbance they will cause.
There they find the Bertram family, with their beautiful daughters and
handsome sons - and Fanny Price. Eighteen-year-old Fanny has grown up in
the shadow of her glamorous relations. In fact, no one seems to remember
she's there at all, which is why they don't notice that she's gradually
been falling in love. But while she hides a secret passion, she has no
idea she's become an object of interest herself for another admirer. As
a scandal begins to unfold that will have devastating effects on
everyone, Fanny discovers that love will blossom in the most unusual of
places... Jane Austen was born in 1775, in Steventon, Hampshire, where
her father was rector. When she was 25 the family moved to Bath till her
father's death in 1805, then to Chawton in Hampshire where Jane lived
with her mother and sister. She wrote six novels.
Sense and Sensibility
was first in 1811, then Pride and Prejudice
(1813), Mansfield Park
(1814) and Emma
(1816). Northanger Abbey
and Persusaion
were both published posthumously, in 1817. Jane Austen died in 1817.
Well-received during her lifetime, since her death she has become known
as not just one of the greatest writers of English fiction, but one of
the most beloved.
