Jane Austen Book Club: Mansfield Park (published 1814)

Welcome to our Truth Universally Acknowledged Book Club: here's your chance to reread your favourite Jane Austen books in the company of like-minded readers. Even better, you can explore the perceptiveness and skill of her writing for the first time.

Why not join Ros and Sue as we immerse ourselves month by month in the delights of Sense & Sensibility, Pride & Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sanditon and Lady Susan. We'll also read other authors who have been inspired by Jane's work to create their own versions of her stories: Emma by Alexander McCall Smith, Northanger Abbey by Val McDermid, Jane Austen Ruined My Life by Beth Pattillo, The Jane Austen Book Club by Karen Joy Fowler and Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby (the sequel to Miss Hornby, recently dramatised by the BBC).

And if you have any further suggestions for Austen-themed books, do share them with us.

Please bring along £1 (or £12 for the year) as a contribution to Meetup fees - this £1 is only payable by non-IVC fully-paid members (and can be reclaimed if you decide to join the CambsIVC membership group).

Reading choice for Tuesday 9th December:
Mansfield Park Begun in 1811 at the height of Jane Austen's writing powers and published in 1814, this marks a conscious break from the light tone of her earlier novels. Fanny Price is a girl from a poor family brought up in a splendid country house. As emotional chaos threatens to engulf the rest of the household, Fanny is forced to draw on her vast reserve of moral fortitude and imperturbability.

Read so far:
Sense and Sensibility (published 1811)
Sense & Sensibility - Joanna Trollope (published 2013)
Miss Austen - Gill Hornby (published 2020)
Pride and Prejudice (published 1813)
The Other Bennet Sister - Janice Hadlow (published 2018)
Longbourn - Jo Baker (published 2013)
Death Comes to Pemberley - P D James (published 2011)