Download or read book Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen (1775-1817) Annotated written by Jane Austen and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-02-16 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel tells the story of Fanny Price, starting when her overburdened family sends her at age ten to live in the household of her wealthy aunt and uncle and following her development into early adulthood. From early on critical interpretation has been diverse, differing particularly over the character of the heroine, Austen's views about theatrical performance and the centrality or otherwise of ordination and religion, and on the question of slavery. Some of these problems have been highlighted in the several later adaptations of the story for stage and screen.