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"Mansfield Park" was started in February 1811, two years before the publication of "Pride and Prejudice", and was completed "shortly after June 1813". It is speculated that it should be published at the end of May 1814. Like several other Austen novels, "Mansfield Park" takes the love and marriage of young men and women as its theme, but the plot is more complex, the emergencies are more concentrated, and the social satire is more intense, revealing the artificiality and absurdity of the British upper class. Judging from the publication time, "Mansfield Park" is only one year later than "Pride and Prejudice", but the tone and atmosphere of the two works are quite different. "Pride and Prejudice" is both light and bright, while "Mansfield Park" is more solemn and has a more obvious moral preaching color. However, it has a major breakthrough in psychological description and narrative skills. It is a milestone in the history of the development of British novels, indicating that Jane Austen was already a quite mature female writer when she wrote "Mansfield Park".
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