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Frances "Fanny" Price (named after her mother) is the heroine in Jane Austen's 1814 novel, Mansfield Park.The novel begins when Fanny's overburdened, impoverished family—where she is both the second-born and the eldest daughter out of 10 children—sends her at the age of ten to live in the household of her wealthy uncle, Sir Thomas Bertram, and his family at Mansfield Park.
When Fanny is fifteen, Aunt Norris is widowed and her visits to Mansfield Park increase, as does her mistreatment of Fanny. A year later, Sir Thomas leaves to deal with problems on his sugar plantation in Antigua, taking with him his spendthrift eldest son Tom. Mrs Norris, looking for a husband for Maria, finds the rich but weak-willed Mr ...
Fanny is a 1961 American Technicolor romantic drama film directed by Joshua Logan. The screenplay by Julius J. Epstein is based on the book for the 1954 stage musical of the same title by Logan and S.N. Behrman , which in turn had been adapted from Marcel Pagnol 's trilogy.
Fanny were the first all-female rock band to release a major-label album and score a top 40 single, yet they’ve been the victims of almost total erasure.
Edmund gives Fanny a necklace for the ball arranged at Mansfield Park for her benefit. At the same time Edmund shows how much his judgement has been blinded by his infatuation with Mary when he tells Fanny that in her and Mary Crawford's characters 'there is so much general resemblance in true generosity and natural delicacy'. The more reliable ...
In the ongoing saga of the love triangle between Hank, Fanny, and Bess in FrontierVille, we've now been given a choice of which two of these characters we'd like to see move into romantic ...
People are always saying I play horrible women!” says an amused Harriet Walter.It’s hard to argue with this assertion; after all, she has something of a track record.
However, the earlier groups released only singles, so Fanny were the first all-female ensemble to release a full-length album on a major label [9] and one of the first to achieve top 40 success on the Billboard Hot 100. [15] Fanny's music was influenced by the Beatles and the Funk Brothers, the loose studio musician collective on Motown records ...