Mansfield Park

Jane Austen’s novel about poor Fanny Price (Sylvestra LeTouzel), who goes to live with rich relatives. Nicholas Farrell. Mrs. Price: Alison Fiske. William: Allan Hendrick., Dramatisation of the Jane Austen classic about a young girl who is sent to live with well-to-do relatives., Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen, the British miniseries Mansfield Park starred Sylvestra La Touzel as Fanny Price, a “poor relation” deposited at the doorstep of the titular country estate at age ten. Raised by her cynical uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram (Bernard Hepton), the ugly-duckling Fanny was ignored or rebuffed by everyone on the estate except for her cousin, Edmund (Nicholas Farrell). Eventually blossoming into a beautiful woman, Fanny found herself the romantic bone of contention between Edmund and neighboring aristocrat Henry Crawford (Robert Burbage). Though fond of both men, Fanny was not about to make an impulsive choice between them; both Edward and Henry would have to prove their mettle to her before either man could claim her hand in marriage. Telecast in six hour-long installments by the BBC in 1986, Mansfield Park was remade 13 years later as a theatrical feature film., A stunning British television adaption of Jane Austen’s classic novel, set in 18 century England, of a young and impoverished girl who begins a long struggle for acceptance by her shallow relatives.