Category Archives: Edmund Bertram

May 27, 2012 · 7:00 am

Can money make a man smart?

Apparently so!

“If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow.”

What Edmund Bertram thinks to himself about Mr. Rushworth
Mansfield Park, volume 1, chapter 4

Comments Off on Can money make a man smart?

Filed under Edmund Bertram, Mansfield Park, Men, Money, Mr. Rushworth, Wealth

January 25, 2008 · 12:49 pm

The transfer of unchanging attachments


“I purposely abstain from dates on this occasion, that every one may be
at liberty to fix their own, aware that the cure of unconquerable
passions, and the transfer of unchanging attachments, must vary much as
to time in different people. I only entreat everybody to believe that
exactly at the time when it was quite natural that it should be so, and
not a week earlier, Edmund did cease to care about Miss Crawford, and
became as anxious to marry Fanny as Fanny herself could desire.”

Mansfield Park, volume 3, chapter 17

See a preview on the PBS site.

Blake Ritson as Edmund Bertram. ©Jon Hall/ITV plc (Granada International) for Masterpiece™

Comments Off on The transfer of unchanging attachments

Filed under Edmund Bertram, Fanny Price, Love, Mansfield Park, Mary Crawford