This article analyses the ways in which Jane Austen explores questions concerning female property management in two of her novels, Mansfield Park and Persuasion. These two novels are particularly relevant, as they share one common aspect: in both, two female characters attempt to appropriate the position of manager of a house they have no possibility of ever owning, thus replacing the legitimate manager. By analysing these two novels, I aim to show how Austen engages with the late eighteenth‐ and early nineteenth‐century discourse on female management and considers the possibilities and limits of this form of relationship with houses.

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“她一直依赖的办公室”：简·奥斯丁的曼斯菲尔德公园和说服的代管人

本文分析了简·奥斯丁在其两部小说《曼斯菲尔德公园》和《说服》中探索有关女性财产管理问题的方式。这两部小说特别相关，因为它们有一个共同的方面：在两个小说中，两个女性角色都试图改变他们不可能拥有的房屋的管理者的位置，从而取代了合法的管理者。通过分析这两部小说，我的目的是展示奥斯丁如何参与18世纪末和19世纪初关于女性管理的论述，并思考这种与房屋关系形式的可能性和局限性。