Growing up in a not very wealthy family of nine children, was not easy for Fanny Price. When the meagre earnings of Fanny's father, a drinking, disabled, naval officer, were found insufficient to support the household of nine children, Mrs. Price's well-to-do sister, Lady Bertram, decides to take up one child to raise in her family at Mansfield Park. So, Fanny is brought up with her four cousins, Maria, Julia, Tom and Edmund. On one hand, Maria and Julia are rather self-consumed girls who dream of getting married well, and on the other is the innocent and respectful Fanny. The arrival of the Crawford siblings, Mary and Henry, in the absence of Fanny's uncle, Sir Thomas, brings subtle upheaval in the family. Their glamour and flirtatious charm affects the siblings at Mansfield Park and only Fanny remains unperturbed by it, suspicious of the Crawfords at the same time. 'Mansfield Park' is a quintessential Jane Austen read with underlined hints at the social state in the story.
