Murder at Mansfield Park

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Miss Fanny Price, niece to Sir Thomas; daughter to Mr Price of Lessingby Hall, Cumberland, and his wife Frances, sister to Lady Bertram

The household:

Baddeley, the butler

Mrs Baddeley, the housekeeper

Mr McGregor, the steward

Mr Fletcher, the bailiff

Mrs Chapman, attending Lady Bertram

Mme Dacier, attending Miss Price

Hannah O'Hara, attending Miss Price

Kitty Jeffries, attending Miss Bertram

Polly Evans, attending Miss Julia Bertram

At the White House

Mrs Norris, sister to Lady Bertram

Edmund Norris, her stepson

At the Parsonage

The Reverend Dr Grant

Mrs Grant

Henry Crawford, half brother to Mrs Grant

Miss Mary Crawford, his sister

At Sotherton

James Rushworth, son to Sir Richard Rushworth

The Honourable John Yates

From London

Charles Maddox, a thief-taker

George Fraser and Abel Stornaway, his assistants

About thirty years ago Miss Maria Ward, of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet’s lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income. All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation, and her father hoped that the eldest daughter’s match would set matters in a fair train for the younger. But, though she possessed no less a fortune, Miss Julia’s features were rather plain than handsome, and in consequence the neighbourhood was united in its conviction that there would not be such another great match to distinguish the Ward family.

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