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I have been using Marilyn Butler’s brilliant Jane Austen and the War of Ideas to write the essay on Mansfield Park and was reminded of this: In characterizing her heroine, Fanny, Jane Austen illustrates her idealogical disagreement with Maria Edgeworth.  Caroline Percy of Patronage, Belinda, Leonora, and other Edgeworth model characters, is essentially a rationalist.  Fanny [...]