How does Jane Austen use religious words in her early, satirical stories?
“The Generous Curate”: Jane Austen’s Religious Vocabulary in the Juvenilia (Part 1)
Category: Mansfield Park
What Jane Austen’s Characters Read (And Why)
Susan Allen Ford's book explores what books Jane Austen's characters read, and how those books connect to Austen's plots, themes, and characters.
Jane Austen’s “Evil” Clergymen”?
How bad are Jane Austen's "bad" clergymen?
The Stoneleigh Abbey Chapel and Mansfield Park
The Stoneleigh Abbey chapel was likely the model for the chapel at Sotherton, where a key scene takes place in Mansfield Park.
Jane Austen’s Clergymen and Her Leigh Family
The clergyman in Jane's mother's family may have given her patterns for the clergymen-heroes in Austen's novels.
Jane Austen’s Leigh Family: Stories behind the Stories
Stories from Jane Austen's wealthy Leigh relatives are reflected in several of her novels.
Mansfield Park and Klara and the Sun
Surprisingly, Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro, is similar in some ways to Mansfield Park.
Book Review: Mansfield Trilogy by Lona Manning
These entertaining variations on Mansfield Park add more history and new twists to the story.
Sermons by Jane Austen’s Family
What do we know about Jane Austen's father and brothers as clergyman? What did they preach about?
Whately’s Review of Mansfield Park, Northanger Abbey, and Persuasion, 1821
An early review of Mansfield Park and other novels shows Austen's Christian perspective, giving lessons by natural, entertaining, moral examples and not by preaching.
Faith, Science, Joy, and Jane Austen 