Inherited and Living Variables: The Choices of Sisters and Brothers in Mansfield Park

[...]Graham observes, “Miss Frances Ward, the youngest sister, offers abundant evidence in favor of Sulloway’s observation that later-born siblings are likeliest to rebel” (73). [...]fascinatingly, on the very first two pages of the novel, as Austen introduces this trio of siblings, she implies that...

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Published in:Persuasions : the Jane Austen journal online 2009-01, Vol.30 (1)
Main Author: Marcia McClintock Folsom
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Austen, Jane (1775-1817)
Birth order
British & Irish literature
English literature
Essays
Habits
Intelligence
Marriage
Personality
Power
Siblings
Variables
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