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Mansfield Park, composed between February 1811 and June 1813. marks a transition in Jane Austen's career as a novelist. The twelve-year span from the completion of Afonhanger Abbey to the commencement ofMansfield Park saw no original works. When Mansfield Park was published in 1814, it proved to be much different in style and subject from the earlier novels. For one thing, the narrator is more obtrusive, moralizing on characters and events in a way not evident in Austen's other novels. Stylistically, the occurrences of speech and thought rendered as free indirect discourse (FID)1 increase markedly, resulting in a greater psychological depth of character than that realized in the earlier fiction. The movement away from dialogue toward internal views presented in free indirect form results in a penetrating view of character, and, in the case of Fanny Price, the first look into the psychology of jealousy, guilt, and anxiety. Mansfield Park is no less dramatic than the other novels in terms of speech presentation; however, the narrator is the most strongly opinionated of any in an Austen novel. Unlike Nonhanger Abbey, where the narrator speaks directly to readers in a mocking and ironical fashion, this narrator is nearly always serious and judgmental, commenting on Henry Crawford's weakness and Fanny Price's goodness. Roy Pascal finds problems with this personalised narrator, who, for the most part, is objective, but who, at times, takes on a personality:
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