Mansfield Park

Fanny Price is sent at ten to live with rich relations who never let her forget the favor, and grows into the only person in the house with a working conscience. Austen gave her heroine no wit and no charm and dared the reader to prefer her anyway; the theatricals, the ha-ha and the estate in Antigua have kept scholars arguing for a century. Fifty-eight plates from Constable to Lawrence, spanning 1782 to 1850, gather the landscapes, cottages and country houses of Austen's England into the world of Mansfield Park.