In the exciting conclusion of the Mansfield Trilogy, the lives and destinies of Jane Austen's well-known characters are deftly blended with dramatic historical events. Fanny Price is torn between her love for William Gibson and her duty to her family. In London, Fanny's brother John meets his match in a feisty bookseller's daughter. And Edmund Bertram's wife Mary meets the charismatic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley and risks everything to gain the power and influence she craves.Regency England comes alive in this tale of love, loss and second chances set against the real-life backdrop of political turmoil in England.
A Marriage of Attachment continues the story of Fanny Price as she struggles to build her own life after leaving her rich uncle's home. Fanny teaches sewing to poor working-class girls in London, while trying to forget her first love, Edmund Bertram, who is trapped in a disastrous marriage with Mary Crawford. Together with her brother John and her friend, the writer William Gibson, she discovers a plot that threatens someone at the highest levels of government. Meanwhile, Fanny's brother William fights slavery on the high seas while longing for the girl he loves. Filled with romance, suspense and even danger, A Marriage of Attachment takes the familiar characters from Mansfield Park on a new journey. A Marriage of Attachment is the sequel to A Contrary Wind.
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1963.
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