# Mansfield Park — Character guide

> Key figures in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

- [Fanny Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/fanny_price.md): Fanny arrives at Mansfield Park timid and homesick, weeping on the attic stairs until Edmund alone bothers to ask what is wrong. Her lowly position among wealthy cousins makes her grateful, self-effacing, and acutely sen
- [Edmund Bertram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/edmund_bertram.md): Edmund finds Fanny crying on the attic stairs and becomes her steady friend, defending her against his sisters' indifference and his aunt's lectures. Serious and principled, he nonetheless grows susceptible to Mary Crawf
- [Sir Thomas Bertram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/sir_thomas_bertram.md): Sir Thomas governs Mansfield with firm resolve, arranging Fanny's upbringing and his children's marriages as matters of duty and advantage. He means to be kind but cannot imagine feelings unlike his own, and his gravity 
- [Mary Crawford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/mary_crawford.md): Mary brings London polish and easy confidence to a country parish, and her attentions to Edmund are genuine even as her values remain flexible. She cannot see why a clergyman's profession should be respected, and she tre
- [Henry Crawford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/henry_crawford.md): Henry Crawford arrives at Mansfield with charm enough to make any gathering livelier and discipline enough to make none of it last. He toys with Maria and Julia Bertram's affections without scruple, then finds himself ge
- [Mrs. Norris](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/mrs_norris.md): Mrs. Norris orchestrated Fanny's removal from Portsmouth and never lets her forget it, lecturing the child on gratitude while doing nothing to ease her misery. She manages everyone's business but her own, saving money at
- [Lady Bertram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/lady_bertram.md): Lady Bertram presides over Mansfield Park chiefly as a warm, motionless presence, leaving the rearing of her children and the management of the household to her husband and her busy sister, Mrs. Norris. Her easy temper a
- [Julia Bertram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/julia_bertram.md): Julia grows up as Maria's second, always measuring herself against an elder sister who commands more attention and, in Henry Crawford, more admiration. When Henry's interest settles on Maria, Julia's jealousy curdles int
- [Maria Bertram](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/maria_bertram.md): Maria Bertram is beautiful, accomplished, and conscious of her own consequence, groomed by Mansfield to marry well and by Mrs. Norris to think chiefly of herself. Engaged to the wealthy but dull Mr. Rushworth, she finds 
- [Mr. Rushworth](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/mr_rushworth.md): Mr. Rushworth owns Sotherton and a fortune that recommends him to the Bertrams far more than his own company does; he is vain about his improvements, uncertain in his opinions, and easily led by whoever last spoke to him
- [William Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/william_price.md): William Price is the brother Fanny loves best among the Portsmouth siblings, a young midshipman whose letters and rare visits are the brightest events of her life at Mansfield. His affection is uncalculating and his pros
- [Dr. Grant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/dr_grant.md): The clergyman at Mansfield parsonage who enjoys good food and company.
- [Mrs. Grant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/mrs_grant.md): The kind wife of Dr. Grant who hosts the Crawfords and befriends Fanny.
- [Susan Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/susan_price.md): Fanny's younger sister who later comes to live at Mansfield Park.
- [Mr. Yates](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/mr_yates.md): A theatrical friend of Tom Bertram who elopes with Julia.
- [Mrs. Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/mrs_price.md): Fanny's overburdened mother living in Portsmouth with many children.
- [Admiral Crawford](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/admiral_crawford.md): The uncle of Henry and Mary Crawford, a coarse naval officer.
- [Elizabeth Price](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/characters/elizabeth_price.md): Fanny's younger sister, a spoiled child in Portsmouth.

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