![]() She is shy, scared of her uncle and badly misses her home and family. When she is 10 she is adopted by her aunt Maria, who is married to the wealthy Sir Thomas Bertram, so Fanny moves from her chaotic but happy home in Southampton to the grandeur of Mansfield Park in Northamptonshire. She’s delicate of health, oversensitive, prim, determined to believe that people can’t change, surprisingly impractical and generally a right goody-two-shoes.įanny is the oldest girl in a very large, not very well off family. Her fate is predictable, telegraphed from the first few pages, but that’s not so bad if the journey is still enjoyable. ![]() I don’t think I will ever be a big fan, but I do increasingly appreciate her smart wit, her irony and sarcasm.įanny Price, however, is my least favourite Austen heroine so far. So I’m still not sold on Jane Austen, having read four of her seven novels. ![]()
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