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The Poetical Works of the Rev. George Crabbe With His Letters and Journals
“Dr Chapman has shown that Jane Austen often preferred to use or adapt proper names from other writers. An instance of this which, I believe, has not previously been noted, is that of the heroine of Mansfield Park. In The Parish Register, Part II (1807), Jane Austen’s favourite poet Crabbe had written:
Sir Edward is an amorous knight
And maidens chaste and lovely shun his sight;
His bailiff’s daughter suited much his taste,
For Fanny Price was lovely and was chaste”
- Authored by E.E. Duncan-Jones in Jane Austen and Crabbe, The Review of English Studies © 1954 Oxford University Press
