Winter break blog post!

For this blog post I have continued to read Mansfield park. On the first page of my book, there is a page titled, “From the Pages of Mansfield Park,” and it has some quotes from throughout the storyline. For this blog I am going to reflect on the quotes which I have read already in the book(if that makes sense).
The first quote in the book is ‘ Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anyone(pg. 6).’
As I went to find this quote in context I couldn’t find it on the page marked! I think it was Mrs. Norris talking to Sir Thomas about Fanny coming to lives with them though. To me this quote greatly reflects on the era in which the book was written. Education was one of the most important things to wealthy people, second to being “proper” and “making a name for yourself.” Personally I think it would be hard to live during this time because you always seem to have your life planned out. This quote does make me feel a bit sorry for Fanny. This is because Mrs. Norris and Sir Thomas are kind of treating her like a burden, “without further expense to anyone,” words like that must be used, because Fanny is putting expense on people to raise. But she is very lucky for her family who wants her to turn out well.