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| Character | Description |
|---|---|
| Fanny Price | Fanny Price is the poor cousin whom the Bertrams take in and raise; her presence becomes a comfort and a blessing to the family. Read More |
| Edmund Bertram | Edmund Bertram, second son of Sir Thomas and Lady Bertram, is a serious young man, preparing to become a clergyman when he falls in love with a London socialite. Read More |
| Mary Crawford | Mary Crawford is a lively young woman whose extended visit to her sister, Mrs. Grant, brings her—and her big-city attitudes—into the Bertrams' social circle at Mansfield Park. Read More |
| Henry Crawford | Henry Crawford is a smart, charismatic, and vain young man, owner of a sizable estate, and target of marriageable young women in London and at Mansfield Park. Read More |
| Tom Bertram | Eldest child and heir to Mansfield Park, Tom Bertram is a wastrel who embarrasses his father socially and financially until serious illness causes him to reassess his behavior and change his ways. Read More |
| Maria Bertram | Maria Bertram is the pretty, spoiled, older Bertram daughter whose underdeveloped sense of duty and inappropriate behavior bring shame upon the family; to get the attention she craves, Maria willingly sacrifices her sister's heart and betrays her husband, acts that leave her abandoned and exiled. Read More |
| Julia Bertram | Julia Bertram is the pretty younger sister of the Bertram family who grows up in Maria's shadow; although jealous at first of Henry Crawford's attentions to Maria, the more sensible Julia avoids Maria's shameful actions, asks for forgiveness, and rejoins the family after her elopement. Read More |
| Baddeley | Baddeley is the Bertrams' butler. |
| Lady Bertram | Perpetually exhausted, yet often idle, Lady Bertram is the mother of Tom, Edmund, Maria, and Julia, and comes to depend heavily on Fanny's company. |
| Sir Thomas Bertram | Sir Thomas Bertram is the thoughtful patriarch of the Bertram household and conscientious manager of Mansfield Park; although he is well-intentioned, his decisions do not always lead to positive results. |
| Mr. Campbell | A well-behaved young man and friend of William Price, Mr. Campbell is the surgeon on the Thrush, the ship on which William serves. |
| Mrs. Chapman | Mrs. Chapman is Lady Bertram's personal maid. |
| Admiral Crawford | Although he never appears in the book, Henry and Mary's uncle, Admiral Crawford, is a man of influence whose unorthodox choice to live with his mistress spawns social gossip and renders his home an unsuitable place for Mary to live. |
| Ellis | Ellis is a servant at Mansfield Park. |
| Mrs. Fraser | Mrs. Janet Fraser is one of Mary's wealthy London friends who Edmund fears is a bad influence on her; she and Lady Stornaway are sisters. |
| Margaret Fraser | Margaret is the sister-in-law of Mrs. Fraser; according to Mary Crawford, Margaret Fraser would like to be courted by Henry. |
| Dr. Grant | Dr. Grant is the rotund, genial clergyman who takes the living at Mansfield Park after Mr. Norris dies. |
| Mrs. Grant | Mrs. Grant, the pleasant mistress of Mansfield Park's parsonage, hosts her younger siblings, Mary and Henry, and plays matchmaker for the young people. |
| Mr. Harding | Mr. Harding is the old friend of Sir Thomas who alerts him, by letter, of Maria's dishonorable behavior in London and tries to keep it quiet. |
| Christopher Jackson | The carpenter employed at Mansfield Park, Christopher Jackson, in addition to other tasks, is called upon to build the stage for the theatrical. |
| Dick Jackson | Dick is the 10-year-old son of the carpenter who works at Mansfield Park; Mrs. Norris considers humiliating the boy an accomplishment of her housekeeping ability. |
| Miss Lee | Miss Lee is governess to the Bertram sisters and Fanny at Mansfield Park. |
| Maddison | Maddison helps Henry manage his estate, Everingham, but has used his position to exploit some of Henry's tenants. |
| Charles Maddox | Charles Maddox is the friend Tom plans to ask to join the amateur theatricals, perhaps in a ploy to force Edmund to take a role. |
| Nanny | Nanny is Mrs. Norris's house servant. |
| Mr. Norris | The Rev. Mr. Norris held the living at Mansfield Park's Parsonage until his death—an arrangement Sir Thomas made to benefit his wife's sister. |
| Mrs. Norris | Especially after her husband's death, the stingy, stern, and overbearing Mrs. Norris—Lady Bertram and Mrs. Price's sister—takes over Lady Bertram's role as Julia and Maria's surrogate mother. |
| The Miss Owens | Three young women, sisters of Edmund's friend Mr. Owen, trouble Mary's thoughts when Edmund stays with his friend; she frets jealously over whether they are pretty or musically gifted. |
| Mr. Owen | Edmund stays with his friend Mr. Owen, also a young clergyman, when he goes to take his orders. |
| Mr. Price | Poor, uneducated, and unconnected, Mr. Price, a former lieutenant of the Marines, is Fanny's father, whose main occupations are drinking, reading the newspaper, and socializing. |
| Mrs. Price | Mrs. Frances Price, younger sister of Lady Bertram and Mrs. Norris, is Fanny's overwhelmed mother who married poorly and suffers for her choice. |
| The Price children | Mr. and Mrs. Price have nine children, most of whom have very small roles in the novel; other than Fanny, William, and Susan, they are Richard, Charles, John, Tom, Sam, and Betsey; another daughter, Mary, is deceased. |
| Susan Price | Susan Price is Fanny's younger sister whom Fanny takes under her wing in Portsmouth; Susan is 14 when she arrives with Fanny on her return to Mansfield Park and eventually takes Fanny's place as Lady Bertram's companion. |
| William Price | William Price is Fanny's beloved older brother; he becomes a naval officer and continues to be an upright young man, helped by Sir Thomas's and Henry Crawford's patronage. |
| Rebecca | Rebecca is the Prices' incompetent, impertinent domestic servant. |
| James Rushworth | The wealthy young owner of Sotherton, James Rushworth is a dull man but a financially desirable fiancé and husband for Maria Bertram. |
| Mrs. Rushworth | Knowledgeable about the family estate, Sotherton, Mrs. Rushworth is James Rushworth's widowed mother who gives her blessing to her son's marriage to Maria Bertram. |
| Mrs. Rushworth's servant | Maria Bertram Rushworth's personal servant is happy to help spread the gossip about Maria and Henry's flight, with her employer's blessing. |
| Lady Stornaway | Lady Flora Stornaway is one of Mary's wealthy London friends who Edmund fears is a bad influence on her; Lady Stornaway and Mrs. Fraser are sisters. |
| Wilcox | Wilcox is the old coachman at Mansfield Park. |
| John Yates | John Yates is Tom Bertram's friend whose desire to act leads to the plans for the play at Mansfield Park and who later elopes with Julia Bertram. |
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