Mansfield Park – Jane Austen

"We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."

Fanny Price, a shy and impoverished girl, is sent to live with her wealthy cousins at Mansfield Park. Treated as a second-class citizen by everyone except her cousin Edmund, she observes the moral decay and superficiality of the family. When the Crawford siblings arrive from London, bringing glamour and scandal, Fanny's quiet strength and integrity are tested as she stands alone against the pressure to marry for advantage rather than love.

Jane Austen's most mature and controversial novel is a study of silence and endurance. It critiques the lack of moral principles in the upper classes and champions the virtues of constancy and inner worth.