Her First Ball
Fanny Price
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
Their match: Edmund Bertram
Sit as Fanny Price Free to sit
Jane Austen · 1814
Who’s who, from Fanny Price to Mr Rushworth
Quiet Fanny Price, raised among rich cousins, holds to her principles when the glamorous Crawfords arrive.
Mansfield Park
Her First Ball
“We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.”
Their match: Edmund Bertram
Sit as Fanny Price Free to sit
Thornton Lacey
“Edmund's friendship never failed her.”
Their match: Fanny Price
Sit as Edmund Bertram Free to sit
Riding Lessons
“A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.”
Hoping for: Edmund Bertram
Sit as Mary Crawford With any portrait pack
Lovers' Vows
“He was, in fact, the most agreeable young man the sisters had ever known.”
Hoping for: Fanny Price
Sit as Henry Crawford With any portrait pack
The Gate at Sotherton
“'I cannot get out,' as the starling said.”
Their match: Mr Rushworth
Sit as Maria Bertram With any portrait pack
Newly Made Lieutenant
“Good principles, professional knowledge, energy, courage, and cheerfulness.”
Sit as William Price With any portrait pack
On the Sofa with Pug
“She was a woman who spent her days in sitting, nicely dressed, on a sofa, doing some long piece of needlework, of little use and no beauty.”
Sit as Lady Bertram With any portrait pack
Count Cassel
“I come in three times, and have two-and-forty speeches.”
Their match: Maria Bertram
Sit as Mr Rushworth With any portrait pack
On screen
Who played whom in two adaptations: Patricia Rozema’s 1999 film and the 2007 ITV film.
| Character | 1999 film | 2007 ITV film |
|---|---|---|
| Fanny Price | Frances O’Connor | Billie Piper |
| Edmund Bertram | Jonny Lee Miller | Blake Ritson |
| Mary Crawford | Embeth Davidtz | Hayley Atwell |
| Henry Crawford | Alessandro Nivola | Joseph Beattie |
| Maria Bertram | Victoria Hamilton | Michelle Ryan |
| Lady Bertram | Lindsay Duncan | Jemma Redgrave |
| Mr Rushworth | Hugh Bonneville | Rory Kinnear |
| William Price | Not in the film | Joseph Morgan |
Patricia Rozema’s 1999 film starred Frances O’Connor and Jonny Lee Miller, with the playwright Harold Pinter as Sir Thomas Bertram; it draws on Austen’s letters and early writings as well as the novel.
The 2007 ITV film starred Billie Piper as Fanny, with Hayley Atwell as Mary Crawford.
Four questions
Four questions from the novels. Find your match among the characters of Mansfield Park, then sit for their portrait.
Question 1 of 4
At a ball, you…
Mansfield Park questions
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Fanny Price has been played by Frances O’Connor (1999 film) and Billie Piper (2007 ITV film), with Jonny Lee Miller and Blake Ritson as Edmund Bertram.
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