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Andrea313
Mansfield Park | Jane Austen
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We are plagued with more chapters focusing on Henry Crawford. This time he proves he has a knack for reading Shakespeare aloud and though she tries to hold strong, Fanny is *into it*. But then he swiftly ruins any progress he made by talking about what kind of preacher he'd be: snobbish, ineffectual, and desperate for adoration. I can't adequately express how much I truly despise this man and how much I love that Fanny sees right through him.

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Andrea313
Mansfield Park | Jane Austen
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Henry shows up to drop the news that he used his connections to get Fanny's brother promoted and oh, btw, he's totally in love and wants to marry her. She is well and truly flabbergasted and I love the narration of her perspective here: she reflects on his manslut ways (above) and while he's plying her with flowery sentiments, she "considered it all as nonsense." Sir Thomas, though, can't believe she rejected him and ruh-roh...this won't end well.

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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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"He had vanity, which strongly inclined him, in the first place, to think she did love him, though she might not know it herself; and which, secondly, when constrained at last to admit that she did know her own present feelings, convinced him that he should be able in time to make those feelings what he wished."

She said NO Henry!

#Pemberlittens
#JaneAustenThenAndNow
#MusingsOnMansfieldPark

AnneCecilie I know. How hard is it to understand? 14h
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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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"She had no one to take her part, to counsel, or speak for her. Her only friend was absent."

#Pemberlittens we all know that Jane Austen was brilliant. But this scene. Edmund is gone. Fanny has no one. She may be blotchy from crying but she doesn't waver. It's a turning point for me. I recognize her strength of character.

#MusingsOnMansfieldPark
#JaneAustenThenAndNow

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Andrea313
Mansfield Park | Jane Austen
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Edmund leaves for his ordination, and while Fanny is relieved that he's going through with it, Mary Crawford is miserable- but her spirits lift when Henry announces his intention to marry Fanny. Yes, what started as a cruel joke at her expense has somehow morphed into a twisted white knight fantasy in Henry's mind. He laments how "friendless, neglected, forgotten" she is and reflects in self-satisfaction on how he will be her rescuer. Fucking UGH.

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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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Today in the continued self centered drama of Henry Crawford: "No—You must be aware that I am quite determined to marry Fanny Price.”

#Pemberlittens mid month check in. Sorry I've been a bit absent for this Readalong. I had to have Stress Test. Days up to it have been stressing me out. Results are in. All is well! Looking forward to quiet end of July.

How's your month going? Are you doing 2 Chapters A Day of Mansfield Park? Finished reading?

Bookwormjillk Glad your test went well!

I am binge listening to the audiobook rather than doing chapter a day since the library wants it back. Hoping to finish today.
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TheBookHippie I‘m 2-3 chapters a day. 😅 because I fell behind 🫣 3d
Deblovestoread Got behind but trying to catch up. 3d
eeclayton I'm doing 2 chapters per day, and enjoying it a lot. For me, Austen novels work really well at a slow pace, and Mansfield Park especially. 3d
AnneCecilie I‘m doing 2 chapters a day and now more than ever I really notice how self centered most of these characters are 3d
GingerAntics Stress tests are stunningly stressful! 3d
Crinoline_Laphroaig @AnneCecilie so self centered. 2d
Crinoline_Laphroaig @GingerAntics they are! Glad it's done. 2d
GingerAntics @Crinoline_Laphroaig which one did you do? 2d
Crinoline_Laphroaig @GingerAntics it was scaning, treadmill, scanning again. I had some fluttery feels in my chest awhile back.I have a family history of heart disease so my dr wanted to make sure. Worst part was the anxiety leading up to appointment. But everything was fine. 2d
GingerAntics @Crinoline_Laphroaig yeah, that one seems to be the most exhausting one. There is one with meds for people who can‘t do the treadmill for whatever reason, and you just lay there. 2d
Andrea313 So glad your test is over! On the Mansfield front, I've been steady at two chapters a day, but have gotten behind in posting a couple times. About to double post now to catch up again! We're really into the goods now, I just love Fanny so much in these chapters. 10h
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Andrea313
Mansfield Park | Jane Austen
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Lmao I love Fanny so much. The girl is going to the first party of her entire life and all we get is, "She had hardly ever been in a state so nearly approaching high spirits." Nearly approaching! We stan a self-possessed, stoic queen. ? Honestly, though, it's gonna be a banger of a night: Edmund came in clutch with his own gift so the necklace question is answered, and he engaged her for two dances. What could go wrong? (Answer: Henry Crawford.)

Crinoline_Laphroaig It's always Henry Crawford! 🤦🏻‍♀️ 3d
Andrea313 @Crinoline_Laphroaig Crashing breakfast with her brother?? RUDE! 3d
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Andrea313
Mansfield Park | Jane Austen
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Gather round, folks: Sir Thomas is throwing a ball and everyone's mad excited. Fanny has a dilemma, though: William brought her a cross which she's been wearing on some ribbon, but that imitation bling isn't gonna cut it on the big night. She goes to Mary Crawford for advice and Mary offers her an old chain of her own. But what seems a nice gesture is inappropriate as hell because the chain came from Henry and now Fanny is in a moral gray area!

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Crinoline_Laphroaig
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"She could not be convinced that he had not, for Miss Crawford, complaisant as a sister, was careless as a woman and a friend."

Mary Crawford is definitely not your friend!

I'm loving the illustrations in my 1996 Book of the Month edition.

#Pemberlittens
#MusingsOnMansfieldPark
#JaneAustenThenAndNow

Crinoline_Laphroaig Also I'm using #MusingsOnMansfieldPark just as way for me to look back on my specific posts on books from #JaneAustenThenAndNow. 4d
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Andrea313
Mansfield Park | Jane Austen
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Let me tell you now of my deep hatred and dripping disdain for Henry Crawford, a vile, manipulative, misogynistic manwhore who is out specifically to sow trouble for his own amusement. In today's chapter, he delightedly announces his plan to win Fanny's affection and then break her heart just because she didn't fawn over him at dinner and he feels entitled to every woman's flattery and attention. I would eat this fucker's heart in the marketplace!

LitStephanie 🤣 He is a selfish, destructive turd, 5d
Andrea313 @LitStephanie 100%! And so many seem to love him and feel being with Fanny would have "fixed" him?? Girl, please. The man would have ruined her life in spite of 4,000 a year. 5d
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mcctrish You are hired to do all synopsizes? going forward 5d
Andrea313 @mcctrish 😂🫡 Happy to be of service! 5d
eeclayton Couldn't agree more. I hate him more with every reread. 5d
LitStephanie @Andrea313 I would like to think that in the 21st century, women have finally realized there is no fixing scumbag men, but there is too much evidence to the contrary, sadly.🤦‍♀️ The movie versions always make him more sympathetic than he is in the book. 5d
Andrea313 @LitStephanie Yes, I guess the attitudes I'm finding so pervasive on Twitter and Reddit must be influenced by the movie versions. One of the pitfalls of adaptations! I always like to see them but I can count so many movies made from books I love that skew the characterizations, and those interpertations become what lives largest in general perception. I try to live and let live but I will always clutch pearls around Crawford apologists! 5d
Crinoline_Laphroaig Also Mary Crawford is complicit. She never trys to get him to not do it. 5d
Andrea313 @Crinoline_Laphroaig Yes, she's partially to blame as well. Both of them just toying with people. 😡 4d
marleed Oh the mother in we were the Mulvaney‘s. She negatively impacted her children (into adulthood) by her immovable loyalty to her husband. 4d
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