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Originally Posted by fantasyfan
I wonder did she base all that noise and confusion on her personal experiences at a home with loads of siblings!?
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What I am wondering very much is the role of the mother in her books. Mostly it is absent like in Emma or Persuasion or to a certain extend here in Mansfield Park (although it is rather Fanny who is absent) or she is horrible like in Pride and Prejudice or here in MP mother Bertram (which, by the way, I like more with every scene, she is too funny!). Did Jane Austen have a too good or too bad relation to her mother that she more or less "eliminates" the mother of the heroine in her books?