Mansfield Park is the story of Fanny Price, a young Englishwoman raised by her prosperous aunt and uncle due to her parents' poverty. She grows from a child into a woman under their care, falling in love with her cousin Edmund, and eventually marries him. The novel reflects on wealth and status in Victorian England. Its various characters represent ideals and caricatures of Victorian morality and many Victorian stereotypes are addressed and subverted.
Northanger Abbey is the story of Catherine Morland and her holiday to Bath, England during the Regency Period. Pursued by several men and enraptured by the Gothic novels of the time, Catherine begins to develop a new worldview as the finds the truths underlying her society. The narrative is a deconstruction of the archetypal Gothic novel, exchanging supernatural horror for the trials and hypocrisies of Regency England and its social mores.