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Julia Barrett (pseudonym for Julia Braun Kessler) is the author of two other continuations to great novels of Jane Austen, as well as a completion of her last effort. They include: Presumption: An Entertainment, a sequel to Pride and Prejudice, The Third Sister, a continuation of Sense and Sensibility, and Jane Austen’s Charlotte: A Fragment of Her Last Novel, Completed. As a novelist, she has addressed herself to picking up Austen’s wonderful creations –– people so lively and vivid –– to see if she could prolong our encounter with them and increase our pleasure –– while keeping to the author’s themes, speaking her language, and holding true to her marvelous wit. Under her ...
Disturbed by the proposal that she had not expected, Mary Crawford returns to Mansfield Park, in hopes of recovering from her disappointment as well as wishing to enhance her relationship with Edmund Bertram.However soon after she returns, Henry also follows, but with the Bertram sisters gone, she feels that all is safe. therefore imagine her surprise when Henry begins to fancy himself smitten with Fanny Price, the last person she would have expected him to fall in love with.After his proposal leads to disastrous results, Mary attempts to solve the situation, but her advice proves to be the unwinding of her of good fortune.Follow the next Chapter of the Mansfield Park Adventures!
After leaving Mansfield Park to visit friends, without still receiving a marriage proposal from Edmund Bertram, and with her brother being rejected by Fanny Price, Mary Crawford looks for pleasure in town. When she visits her friends in town, she is convinced to join them in Salisbury. When she agrees, she finds them amenable to visiting Briary, the seat of Mr. John Heathcliff. Desirous to visit the home of her estranged friend, she visits, and is surprised to see John Heathcliff there. Over time, their friendship becomes stronger, and all looks bright for their future, until a shocking scandal erupts that causes a breach in their relationship. Will their friendship on the mend, or will Mary Crawford lose the respect of the greatest man she ever knew? Follow along in the last installment of Mary Crawford's adventures in Mansfield Park.
Excerpt from Mary Crawford Brown: A Memoir It has been the writer's privilege to escape for a little while from the routine of special studies and to hold communion in spirit with one whose passage through this world has been to many a convincing evidence of the Divine reality of our Christian faith. This book is written in order that every reader may enjoy the same vivid and sacred friendship, heart yet speaking to heart though the voice is still. When a Scotsman, after but a short stay in Ireland, was invited to prepare the Memoir of a gifted and gracious Irishwoman - a beautiful soul if there has been one in our time - the difficulties were so great and obvious that he could only decline ...
Mary Crawford was born into a world of wealth, consequence, but marital discord and often left to her own reflections when deciding what were the right and wrong choices to make in life. Lively and fiercely married to her skills at wit, confidence and opinions, she believes herself a force to be reckoned with. When she receives an invitation from her half-sister, Mrs. Grant in Northamptonshire, she and her charming but often rakish brother Mr. Henry Crawford, arrive there to enjoy the bonds of sibling affection... and to enjoy a novelty that is the society of the county and the most popular house in the neighborhood, Mansfield Park. When going there, Mary Crawford meets a plethora of dynamic...
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A study of Jane Austen's life and writings, this work surveys two centuries of editing, censorship, and fiction that created a pious, wistful, romantically pining, and frustrated Austen. It serves up an antidote to that icon - a dynamic, brave, and buoyant writer - by examining subtle self-portraits in the author's works.
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