Mary Crawford
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Oct 9, 2026
Frank AustenSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But at the same time, I cannot help feeling how very unfortunate we have been to be away at such a moment, and by a fatal combination of unfortunate though unavoidable events, to lose all share in the glory of a day which surpasses all which ever went before is what I cannot think of with any degree of patience.
speaker_1NARRATOR
In Mansfield Park, Fanny begins an uneasy friendship with Mary Crawford in the autumn after Maria's wedding.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Such was the origin of the sort of intimacy which took place between them within the first fortnight after the Miss Bertram's going away, an intimacy resulting principally from Miss Crawford's desire of something new, and which had little reality in Fanny's feelings.
speaker_1NARRATOR
Fanny went to her every two or three days.
Patricia MatthewGUEST
Um, Lady Bertram, you know, doesn't get exercised about anything except for her, her, her dogs.
Patricia MatthewGUEST
Um, I think the, for many readers, the character who feels the most contemporary, um, is probably Mary Crawford.
Patricia MatthewGUEST
And I think in the same way that contemporary young women can identify with Lizzy Bennet and still call themselves feminists, they can identify with Mary Crawford and still call themselves feminists, except the novel is, doesn't really like Mary Crawford in the same way that the novel seems, or our narrator seems to like Fanny Price.
Patricia MatthewGUEST
So we don't have really, I think, someone to root for in the same way, and the comedy isn't as present as it is in, say, Emma.
Patricia MatthewGUEST
Um, and the sentimentality, I'm just thinking out loud now 'cause I'm thinking of how much I love Sense and Sensibility, and how much part of my love of Sense and Sensibility is being irri- irritated with Marianne Dashwood, who I just wanna shake, you know?
12 MINS LATER
Patricia MatthewGUEST
My husband and I have talked about it." And then, you know, goes back to being herself.
Patricia MatthewGUEST
And so that distinction between silent and speech, that's, of between silence and speech, um, I'll just say one more thing.
Patricia MatthewGUEST
When, um, Mary Crawford is trying to pull Fanny Price into her brother and she says, "I have, you know, I've been f- I've been silent, but I haven't been blind." I don't know if I've got that quote direct.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
Not only at home did her value increase, but at the Parsonage, too.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
In that house, which she had hardly entered twice a year since Mr. Norris's death, did she become a welcome and invited guest, and in the gloom and dirt of a November day, most acceptable to Mary Crawford.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
Her visits there, beginning by chance, were continued by solicitation.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
Mrs.
BeccaHOST
Yeah.
BeccaHOST
And I think the biggest new information about this chapter is, spoiler alert, at the end, what happens between Edmund and Mary in relation to this news.
MollyHOST
Sure, yes, which is acceptable.
BeccaHOST
Acceptable?
MollyHOST
But Mrs. Norris is angry at Fanny because she feels that if Fanny had said yes to Henry, none of this would've happened.
BeccaHOST
That appears to be a narrative that people have started to pop up.
BeccaHOST
We saw the glimmers of this from Mary saying, "I wish you'd let us come get you."
MollyHOST
I can't believe people are blaming this on Fanny.
Bryn RobertsNARRATOR
But small characteristics and failings dwelt on with humorous partiality can often be traced back to the natures of those she loved.
Bryn RobertsNARRATOR
Mary Crawford's brilliant letters to Fanny Price remind one of Cassandra, who was the finest comic writer of the present age.
Bryn RobertsNARRATOR
Charles's impetuous disposition is exaggerated in Bingley, who says, "Whatever I do is done in a hurry," a remark which is severely reproved by Darcy, and not improbably by Frances Austen, as an indirect boast.
Bryn RobertsNARRATOR
Frances himself comes in for his share of teasing on the opposite point of his extreme neatness, precision, and accuracy.
Bryn RobertsNARRATOR
"They are so neat and careful in all their ways," says Mrs. Clay in Persuasion of the naval profession in general, and nothing could be more characteristic of Frances Austen and some of his descendants than the overpowering accuracy with which Edmund Bertram corrects Mary Crawford's hasty estimate of the distance in the wood.
Bryn RobertsNARRATOR
"I am really not tired, which I almost wonder at, for we must have walked at least a mile in this wood.
Bryn RobertsNARRATOR
Do not you think we have?" "Not half a mile," was his sturdy answer, for he was not yet so much in love as to measure distance or reckon time with feminine lawlessness.
Bryn RobertsNARRATOR
When Admiral Croft, Captain Wentworth, or William Price appears on the scene, the other characters immediately take on a merely subsidiary interest, and this prominence is always that given by appreciation.
Theresa RoachGUEST
They became lifelong friends.
Theresa RoachGUEST
And it's actually said that when we meet Mary Crawford in Mansfield Park with her harp, we're meeting Jane's first cousin, Eliza de Feuillide, who also brought a harp with her.
Theresa RoachGUEST
and played the harp.
Theresa RoachGUEST
It's also said when Jane was even younger than when she was when she wrote Mansfield Park.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
Now, in our last episode, Sir Thomas Bertram arrived home from Antigua during a long rehearsal in an afternoon.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
Julia announced his arrival, and the cast stood still in shock, though she couldn't help but notice that Mr. Crawford still held steadfastly to Maria's hand.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
She left, angered and slighted.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
Her siblings shortly followed, and Fanny held back, not thinking it her place as only a niece to go to her uncle immediately.
15 MINS LATER
Elizabeth GraceHOST
The evening passed with external smoothness, though almost every mind was ruffled, and the music which Sir Thomas called for from his daughters helped to conceal the want of real harmony.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
Maria was in a good deal of agitation.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
It was of the utmost consequence to her that Crawford should now lose no time in declaring himself, and she was disturbed that even a day should be gone by without seeming to advance that point.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
She had been expecting to see him the whole morning, and all the evening, too, was still expecting to see him.
Iseult GillespieNARRATOR
At the time she was writing, a wealthy marriage was a financial necessity for most young women, and she often explores the tension between the mythical quest for love and the economic benefits of making a match.
Iseult GillespieNARRATOR
The savvy socialite Mary Crawford sums this up in Mansfield Park.
Iseult GillespieNARRATOR
I would have everybody marry if they can do it properly.
Iseult GillespieNARRATOR
I do not like to have people throw themselves away.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
Fanny had started to realize that Edmund's decision to be involved in the play may not have been purely moral.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
Amelia, his love interest, was to be played by Mary Crawford, who came to Fanny to ask if she would run their love scene together before the official rehearsal in the afternoon.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
Fanny agreed, but just as they were to begin, Edmund arrived to ask her the very same thing.
Elizabeth GraceHOST
They took the opportunity to run the scene together with Fanny prompting them.
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