Details

Title

Mansfield Park

Author

Austen, Jane

Publication Date

1814

Publisher

Dent

Place of Publication

New York, NY

Collection

Scans provided by and used with permission of Archival & Special Collections, University of Guelph Library. From the L.M. Montgomery Collection.

Note

While the covers of Montgomery’s copy of Austen’s ‘Mansfield Park’ is much plainer than her editions of ‘Emma’ and ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ the title page reveals that this edition was printed by the same publisher, with the same decoration as the others. As more books are added to the Bookshelf, you’ll see that many were published by Dent and Sons in New York, suggesting that Montgomery either preferred their bindings and style, or that the booksellers she purchased from kept Dent books in stock. Either way, Montgomery’s ‘Mansfield Park,’ inscribed by Montgomery in 1916, reveals no annotations but two pasted-in illustrations. The first is a rendering of Jane Austen, clipped from a magazine and pasted to the end of the ‘Bibliography’ section of the book. The second, an illustration of “Fanny Price’s Arrival” is tipped/pasted into the corresponding page of the novel, as if Montgomery was illustrating the volume herself. Note that similar kinds of illustrations, down to their formatting and font, are pasted in other books on Montgomery's shelves. Perhaps these clippings came from the the same magazines over the years. See her 'Works of Shakespeare,' for example.

Genre

novel

Type of Item

association