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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen 作者简介 Austen, Jane奥斯汀,简（1775-1817），小说家，生于汉 普郡史蒂文顿，父亲是当地的教区长。她一生中前25年在这里度 过，后来在巴斯、南安普敦、乔顿和温切斯特等地居住。她在家中 七个孩子中排行第五，孩提时代就为全家的欢乐而写作，《爱与友 谊》（Love and Friendship,1922）就是在这个时期写的。她 早期发表的作品讽刺当时轰动一时的小说，运用常识判断表面戏剧 性的环境。后来又发展这一技巧用以评价普通人的行为。6部长篇 小说中，4部在此时匿名发表，两部在她死后出版，发表时有作者 生前的签名。1811年出版的《理智与感伤》（ Sensibility）动笔于1797年；《傲慢与偏见》（ Prejudice）1813年面世；《曼斯菲尔德花园》（ Park）1811年着手写作，1814年出版；《爱玛》（Emma）1815年问 世。两部遗作都在1818年出版；《劝导》（Persuasion）写于1815 年，《诺桑觉寺》（Northanger Abbey）1797年开始写作，1803 年卖给出版商，并未受到重视，书稿于1816年被收回。 CONTENTS 2 Mansfield Park 5 Mansfield Park 1 CHAPTER 1 About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pound s, 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. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the great- ness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage. But there certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are pretty women to deserve them. Miss Ward, at the end of half a dozen years, found herself obliged to be attached to the Rev. Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse. Miss Ward’s match, indeed, when it came to the point, was not contemptible: