Review: ‘Mansfield Park Revisited’ by Merryn Williams

Jane Austen died two years after the battle of Waterloo, and her fame has increased steadily since. That fame is based on a mere six novels, of which Mansfield Park is by far the longest. Enthusiasm for Austen’s work continues unabated. Last year brought us the eight-part dramatisation of her final, unfinished novel Sanditon. Gill