Acknowledgements
Introduction
Jane Austen: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text

Mansfield Park

Appendix A: The Theatricals at Mansfield Park

August von Kotzebue, from Lovers’ Vows

Austen family correspondence, from The Austen Papers

Erasmus Darwin, from A Plan for the Conduct of Female Education in Boarding Schools

Thomas Gisborne, from “On Amusements in General”

Appendix B: Religion

Jane Austen’s prayers, from The Works of Jane Austen

Hannah More, Strictures on the Modern System of Female Education

William Wilberforce, from A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians

Dr. John Gregory, from “Religion”

Appendix C: Ideals of Femininity

Henry Austen, from “Biographical Notice” of Jane Austen

Thomas Gisborne, from “On the Importance of the Female Character”

Dr. John Gregory, from “Conduct and Behaviour”

Hannah More, from “The Benefits of Restraint”

Appendix D: “The Improvement of the Estate”

William Cowper, from The Garden

Humphry Repton, from Observations on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening

Appendix E: The West Indian Connection

A Permanent and Effectual Remedy Suggested for the Evils Under Which the British West Indies Now Labour

Joseph Lowe, from An Inquiry into the State of the British West Indies

Excerpt from Frank Austen’s notebook 1808, from Jane Austen’s Sailor Brothers

Thomas Clarkson, from The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the AfricanSlave-Trade

Hannah More, “The Sorrows of Yamba or the Negro Woman’s Lamentation”

Appendix F: Women’s Education

Thomas Gisborne, from “On Female Education”

Thomas Gisborne, from “On Parental Duties”

Hannah More, from “Comparison of the Mode of Female Education in the Last Age With That of the Present Age”

Maria Edgeworth and Richard Lovell Edgeworth, from “Prudence and Economy”

Mary Wollstonecraft, from “Introduction” to A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

Appendix G: Contemporary Reception of Mansfield Park

Richard Whateley, from Quarterly Review, January 1821

Excerpt from “Opinions of Mansfield Park: collected and transcribed by Jane Austen”

Excerpt from “Opinions of Emma: collected and transcribed by Jane Austen”

Appendix H: Jane Austen’s Letters and Mansfield Park

Letter from JA to Cassandra Austen. January 1813

Letter from JA to Francis Austen. July 1813

Letter from JA to Francis Austen. September 1813

Works Cited and Recommended Reading

About the Author

June Sturrock teaches at Simon Fraser University. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literature, and is the author of ‘Heaven and Home': Charlotte M. Yonge's Domestic Fiction and the Victorian Debate Over Women.

Reviews

“Unlike Jane Austen's earlier novels, Mansfield Park is embedded within a specific historical moment, and the Introduction to this Broadview edition splendidly brings out the novel's engagement with a range of contemporary controversies, from female education to the slave trade and the proper use of wealth. The appendices, too, offer readers a generous range of material, expertly selected and introduced. They extend our insight into what Sturrock shows is Austen's most discomforting—as well as engrossing—text.” - John Wiltshire, LaTrobe University, Australia

“An excellent edition. Sturrock's introduction provides a nuanced view of Mansfield Park as well as judicious treatment of the critical debates the novel has prompted in recent years. Her annotations are genuinely helpful, and the appendices thought-provoking. With a sharp eye for the most relevant passages, Sturrock has assembled late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century writings on issues such as slavery, female education, and private theatricals. These writings create fascinating vantage points from which to view Austen's novel, and they make clear how profound a response it was to contemporary cultural concerns.” - Deborah Kaplan, George Mason University

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