# Mrs. Price — Mansfield Park character guide

> Mrs. Price in Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** poor Mrs. Price, Price

**First appearance:** 0039-xl

## Who they are

Fanny's overburdened mother living in Portsmouth with many children.

## In the story

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/chapters/i)

Formerly Miss Frances; poor and with many children, she gratefully accepts the offer for Fanny.

### [Chapter XXXVIII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/chapters/xxxviii)

Mrs. Price is preoccupied with domestic complaints about servants and quarrels among her children, showing little interest in Fanny's life at Mansfield.

### [Chapter XXXIX](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/chapters/xxxix)

Mrs. Price is indolent, ineffectual, and preoccupied with her other children, showing little affection or attention to Fanny after the first day.

### [XLI](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/chapters/xli)

Welcomes Henry Crawford warmly, grateful for his friendship to William, and shows her best manners.

### [XLII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/mansfield_park_se/chapters/xlii)

Fanny's mother appears more respectable on Sunday, but still shows signs of her worn and shabby appearance. She takes her weekly walk on the ramparts.

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