Mansfield Park is the home of the wealthy Bertram family. The heroine of the novel, Fanny Price, is a "poor relation" living with the Bertrams. Fanny loves their youngest son, Edmund, but finds herself in competition for him with a dazzlingly witty and lovely rival. Courtships, entertainments, and intrigues throw the place into turmoil. Unique in its moral design and its brilliant interplay of the forces of tradition and change, Mansfield Park was the first novel of Jane Austen's maturity, and the first in which the author turned her unerring eye on the concerns of English society at a time of great upheaval.