简·奥斯汀《曼斯菲尔德花园》.pdf

Mansfield Park
by Jane Austen
作者简介
奥斯汀简( ),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》( )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。部长篇
小说中,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。年出版的《理智与感伤》(
)动笔于年;《傲慢与偏见》(
) 年面世;《曼斯菲尔德花园》(
)年着手写作,年出版;《爱玛》()年问
世。两部遗作都在年出版;《劝导》()写于
年,《诺桑觉寺》( )年开始写作,
年卖给出版商,并未受到重视,书稿于年被收回。
2 Mansfield Park
Mansfield Park 1
CHAPTER 1
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 ’s lady, with all forts and consequences of an
handsome house and large e. 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: Sir Thomas being happily able to give his friend an e
in the living of Mansfield; and Mr. and Mrs. Norris began their career of
conjugal felicity with very little less than a thousand a year. But Miss Frances
married, in mon phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a
lieutenant of marines, without education, fortune, or connexions, did it very
thoroughly. She could hardly have made a more untoward choice. Sir
Th