Mr. Rushworth

Mansfield Park is about a young girl, Fanny Price, who goes to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams.

She was a British novelist who wrote six novels: Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park, Emma, Persuasion, and Northanger Abbey.

Her novels are social satires of the rights and freedoms (or lack thereof) allowed women in Regency English society, and are written around the topics of love and marriage among the gentry.

The novel is about a young woman, Fanny Price, and her life with her relations, the Bertrams at their estate of Mansfield Park.

The reader knows the estate features a large park of seven hundred acres and a Tudor mansion.

[7] Rushworth also has trouble learning and remembering his lines for Lovers' Vows, a play that the Bertrams and some friends want to perform.

[4] However, since Sir Thomas Bertram is away in Antigua, Mr. Rushworth has to wait until he returns to marry Maria.

[11] When Sir Thomas does return, he notices that his daughter is indifferent to Mr. Rushworth and seems to prefer Henry Crawford.

[19] Mr. Rushworth takes part in the play Lovers' Vows, a controversial act in the Bertram household because Sir Thomas would never have allowed such frivolity to occur.

[20] He has a lot of trouble learning his lines, and later he tells Sir Thomas that he thought the play was a bad idea to begin with.

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