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I haven't given up trying to catch up! 😂 I did this on audio since that's all I could get on Libby. If, like me, you struggle with the Edmund/Fannie relationship of Mansfield Park, this might be a fun read for you. It's an irreverent take on the original, but if you know this going in, it helps. Elizabeth and Darcy make a few appearances in this, too, revisiting their roles from Pride and Premeditation. #JaneAustenThenandNow @Crinoline_Laphroaig

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So, full review time. I liked that Mansfield Park was an art emporium and Fanny a burgeoning artist. The death of Sir Thomas was sad but a great motivator for all of the selfish habits of the family to come to light. I suspected the murderer from the beginning but the whole motive wasn't overly obvious either. I enjoyed the slight change in Mary Crawford, to be more sympathetic & trying to gain real friendship with Fanny. The ending was satisfying

#ReadingBracket2025 August Fiction update
These Jane Austen retellings have been a highlight this year

A fun read, and the mystery kept me guessing. I loved that Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy appeared!

This was my August selection for #JaneAustenThenAndNow @Crinoline_Laphroaig
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It's been getting more and more chilly here in Michigan, so I'm very happy to take advantage of a sunshine-y day with some reading in the garden! Tirzah Price's latest Austen mystery was slow to start for me, but then suddenly I found I'd read more than 200 pages all at once. 😂 Planning to finish out the day with the final third of a different take on Fanny Price and, let's face it, probably a cocktail at some point. Happy Saturday, friends!

This book is dedicated to me, and I am giddy to see what she does with it 🤭

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About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet‘s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income.
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On that event they removed to Mansfield; and the Parsonage there, which, under each of its two former owners, Fanny had never been able to approach but with some painful sensation of restraint or alarm, soon grew as dear to her heart, and as thoroughly perfect in her eyes, as everything else within the view and patronage of Mansfield Park had long been.
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The peacock feather is from Flannery O'Conner's Andalusia, her home in Millidgeville, Georgia. She was a big fan of the peacock and had a bunch.