![]() ![]() ![]() The most important geographical vectors in the novel are these:ġ), the recuperation of Fanny Price, Sir Thomas Bertram's niece, from the poverty of her life in Portsmouth, and, much later, her being sent home again when she refuses the offer of marriage by Henry Crawford,Ģ), Sir Thomass trip to his Antigua plantation, opening the question of how much of the Mansfield estate is supported by revenues from slavery and sugar. ![]() In Jane Austen's Geographies (Routledge 2018) I argue the location is that of Castle Ashby, seat of the Marquess of Northampton. A good suggestion for its location is offered by Stuart Wiltshire in his preface to the new Cambridge edition of the novel, locating it somewhere in the vicinity of Easton Maudit and Stoke Bruerne in south-east Northamptonshire. The suggestions were made without any real conviction, the link being tenuous. This is an imaginary place which used to be thought modelled on one or two estates to the north of Northampton where Jane Austens brother Henry had clients of his bank. The primary location of Mansfield Park is the Northamptonshire house and landed estate from which the novel takes its name. ![]()
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