Mansfield Park explores important issues such as slavery (the source of the Bertramsโ wealth), the oppressive nature of idealized femininity, and womenโs education. This edition sheds light on these and other issues through its insightful introduction and wide-ranging appendices of contemporary documents.
June Sturrock is an Emeritus Professor of English at Simon Fraser University. She has written widely on nineteenth-century literature, and is the author of โHeaven and Homeโ: Charlotte M. Yongeโs Domestic Fiction and the Victorian Debate Over Women.