In her impressive debut, author Judith Terry
presents a delightful "belowstairs" view of
Jane Austen s timeless novel Mansfield Park.
From Austen s invisible and unnamed host
of Bertram family servants, Terry chooses
a plucky narrator in Jane Hartwell, who
becomes lady s maid to the younger Miss
Bertram.
While the Bertram sisters engage in a
neck-and-neck pursuit of the handsome:
Henry Crawford in front parlors, and pretty
lane fends off the lecherous advances of the
son of the house somewhere in between, the
servants are entertaining dangerous notions
of democracy and revolution in the back
kitchens. Through it all, Jane Hartwell offers
her own shrewd observations of the events of
that memorable summer--and of the world
beyond the protective walls of Mansfield
Park: the world that Austen omitted
In one of the surprising twists of Version and
Diversion, Jane is discovered in the arms of a
secret lover. After setting the household afire
with scandal, she escapes the Wrannies of
Mrs Norris and the tantrums of Miss Julia
only to be hounded through the streets of
London by ruthless bounty hunters and a
vicious band of outlaws Jane learns to sur-
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