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Jane Austen First edition of Mansfield Park, Austen's third novel
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Jane Austen First edition of Mansfield Park, Austen's third novel
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[Jane Austen]
Mansfield Park: A Novel. Printed For T. Egerton, 1814
3 volumes, 12mo (170 x 101 mm). Half-titles, 1p. publisher's advertisement at end of volume III; light spotting, mainly to volume I, lower outer corner of flyleaf in volume II lacking, short tear to lower gutter of volume III, closed marginal tears. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, "Ardencaple" gilt-lettered along hinges; rebacked, corners bumped, covers lightly worn.
First edition of Austen’s third novel—the Duke of Argyle's copy.
Mansfield Parksold out within the year of publication, with John Murray later “express[ing] astonishment that so small an edition of such a work should have been sent into the world” (Gilson, p. 49).
Sense and Sensibility(1811) andPride and Prejudice(1813) had both been drafted in Austen’s twenties and later revised for publication;Mansfield Park,by contrast, was the first of her novels to be fully composed at Chawton Cottage, during what was arguably her most productive period. Kathryn Sutherland has noted that “for some months in 1811 she had three novels on the go” (Sutherland 124).
Though it sold quickly, the novel attracted no reviews until 1821 and remained critically under-examined until Robert Chapman’s landmark 1923 scholarly edition, which appended Elizabeth Inchbald’sLovers’ Vows, thus underscoring its intertextual importance. Without question,Mansfield Parkrepresents a deliberate departure from the “light & bright & sparkling” tone Austen herself associated withPride and Prejudice.In the morally serious figure of Fanny Price, who resists both patriarchal pressure and family coercion, Austen broadened the scope of female agency in fiction.
The novel also gestures beyond the drawing room to the wider world: Sir Thomas Bertram’s Antigua estate, Mrs. Norris’s allusions to its profits, and the Portsmouth setting all anchor the narrative in the realities of Britain’s imperial economy and the Napoleonic Wars. Far from narrow in scope,Mansfield Parkengages with both domestic morality and global commerce, and stands today as one of Austen’s most ambitious and socially incisive works.
This copy bears early Scottish provenance, from the libraries of Archibald Smith, barrister and amateur mathematician, and John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll of Ardencaple Castle. Given Mansfield Park's references to colonialism, it is interesting to note that Campbell, along with other British and Irish Noblemen, established the British American Colonization Association.
REFERENCE:
Garside and Schöwerling 1814:11; Gilson A6; Keynes 6; Sadleir 62c; Sutherland, Kathryn, Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood (Oxford: Oxford university Press, 2005)
PROVENANCE:
John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll (1777-1847) (ownership inscription to title-page, Ardencaple lettered in gilt to covers) — Mr. J. Chappel (?) (ownership inscription to title-page) — Archibald Smith (1813-1872)
Mansfield Park: A Novel. Printed For T. Egerton, 1814
3 volumes, 12mo (170 x 101 mm). Half-titles, 1p. publisher's advertisement at end of volume III; light spotting, mainly to volume I, lower outer corner of flyleaf in volume II lacking, short tear to lower gutter of volume III, closed marginal tears. Quarter morocco over marbled boards, "Ardencaple" gilt-lettered along hinges; rebacked, corners bumped, covers lightly worn.
First edition of Austen’s third novel—the Duke of Argyle's copy.
Mansfield Parksold out within the year of publication, with John Murray later “express[ing] astonishment that so small an edition of such a work should have been sent into the world” (Gilson, p. 49).
Sense and Sensibility(1811) andPride and Prejudice(1813) had both been drafted in Austen’s twenties and later revised for publication;Mansfield Park,by contrast, was the first of her novels to be fully composed at Chawton Cottage, during what was arguably her most productive period. Kathryn Sutherland has noted that “for some months in 1811 she had three novels on the go” (Sutherland 124).
Though it sold quickly, the novel attracted no reviews until 1821 and remained critically under-examined until Robert Chapman’s landmark 1923 scholarly edition, which appended Elizabeth Inchbald’sLovers’ Vows, thus underscoring its intertextual importance. Without question,Mansfield Parkrepresents a deliberate departure from the “light & bright & sparkling” tone Austen herself associated withPride and Prejudice.In the morally serious figure of Fanny Price, who resists both patriarchal pressure and family coercion, Austen broadened the scope of female agency in fiction.
The novel also gestures beyond the drawing room to the wider world: Sir Thomas Bertram’s Antigua estate, Mrs. Norris’s allusions to its profits, and the Portsmouth setting all anchor the narrative in the realities of Britain’s imperial economy and the Napoleonic Wars. Far from narrow in scope,Mansfield Parkengages with both domestic morality and global commerce, and stands today as one of Austen’s most ambitious and socially incisive works.
This copy bears early Scottish provenance, from the libraries of Archibald Smith, barrister and amateur mathematician, and John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll of Ardencaple Castle. Given Mansfield Park's references to colonialism, it is interesting to note that Campbell, along with other British and Irish Noblemen, established the British American Colonization Association.
REFERENCE:
Garside and Schöwerling 1814:11; Gilson A6; Keynes 6; Sadleir 62c; Sutherland, Kathryn, Jane Austen’s Textual Lives: from Aeschylus to Bollywood (Oxford: Oxford university Press, 2005)
PROVENANCE:
John Douglas Edward Henry Campbell, 7th Duke of Argyll (1777-1847) (ownership inscription to title-page, Ardencaple lettered in gilt to covers) — Mr. J. Chappel (?) (ownership inscription to title-page) — Archibald Smith (1813-1872)