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Quotation from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
“About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, 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”
Mansfield Park, Vol. I, Ch. 1 (1814 first edition)
The opening sentence sets out the money and marriages that determine the Ward sisters' fates.
Citation: "About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, 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" — Jane Austen, Mansfield Park, Vol. I, Ch. 1 (1814 first edition). (id mansfield-park-q1)
Portrait: CassandraAusten-JaneAusten(c.1810) hires, Cassandra Austen, Public domain.
