Timeline and Summary

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• Fanny comes to Mansfield from her home in Portsmouth as a girl.
• Fanny has a hard time adjusting to her new life and grows up timid and shy.
• She falls in love with her cousin Edmund at a young age.
• Fanny grows increasingly jealous once Mary Crawford arrives and begins to grow close to Edmund.
• Fanny accompanies everyone on a trip to Mr. Rushworth's house.
• Mary and Edmund leave Fanny, and Fanny then has a series of awkward encounters with all the major characters while never leaving her bench.
• Fanny is the only young person to not participate in the play at Mansfield.
• Instead, Fanny is forced to listen to everyone complain and has to read lines with people.
• Fanny grows increasingly jealous of Mary.
• Sir Thomas returns home and is much more affectionate towards Fanny.
• Mary approaches Fanny as a friend and the two spend time together once Maria and Julia leave town.
• Fanny is thrilled when her brother William comes to visit her.
• Henry Crawford decides to pursue Fanny romantically as a joke, but ends up actually falling in love with her.
• Fanny attends her very first ball.
• Henry proposes to Fanny but she refuses him.
• Everyone is shocked by her refusal and Fanny is under siege from everyone who's trying to convince her to change her mind.
• Sir Thomas sends Fanny to visit her family in Portsmouth.
• Fanny is dismayed by her family and comes to consider Mansfield her real home.
• Henry continues to pursue Fanny in Portsmouth.
• Fanny bonds with her younger sister Susan.
• Fanny receives a series of shocking letters from Mansfield: Tom is sick, Julia eloped, and Maria left her husband for Henry.
• Fanny and Susan return to Mansfield with Edmund.
• Edmund tells Fanny that his relationship with Mary is over.
• Eventually, Edmund and Fanny get married.