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Article: Whatever happened to . . . Jane Austen's Mansfield Park; Godmersham Park, near Canterbury, Kent.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- November 5, 2004
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JANE AUSTEN'S classic novel Mansfield Park remains a firm favourite.
There have been several TV and film adaptations of the book, including a 1999 film starring Hannah Taylor-Gordon.
Austen's model for Mansfield Park is widely thought to be Godmersham Park in Kent, a large country house between Canterbury and Ashford.
The novelist (inset) visited frequently and wrote in letters that she spent some of the happiest days of her life there.
Godmersham was where her brother Edward lived from 1797 until his death in 1852, with his wife Elizabeth and their children, for whom Jane was a muchloved aunt. Edward's son inherited the house, but ...