Though there has been recent interest in how Jane Austen’s faith influenced her novels, scholars have generally looked to her reading in philosophy and sermons, her spiritual expression, or her Anglicanism, and have neglected the more direct influence of the Bible. Yet judging from Austen’s lifelong church attendance and her reading of the Book of Common Prayer, we can conclude that she would have heard the Psalms read entirely through once every month of her forty-one years. This paper explores the resemblance between the psalmists and Fanny Price in terms of their shared experience of exile, their patterns of lament and reminder, their long wait for deliverance, and their final homecoming. Comparing Fanny Price’s character to the psalmists recasts her as a heroine in the Hebrew tradition, offering a new understanding of her passivity and suggesting that her author was more influenced by scriptural patterns than has been heretofore understood.

尽管最近对简·奥斯丁的信仰如何影响她的小说产生了兴趣，但学者们普遍看重她的哲学和讲道阅读，她的精神表达或英国国教，而忽略了圣经的更直接影响。然而，从奥斯丁毕生的教堂出席和她对《共同祈祷书》的阅读来看，，我们可以得出这样的结论：在她四十一岁的每个月中，她都会听完《诗篇》的全部内容。本文从赞美诗人和范妮·普莱斯之间的共同流放经历，哀叹和提醒的方式，他们漫长的等待拯救以及最终的归宿等方面探讨了赞美诗人和范妮·普莱斯之间的相似之处。将范妮·普赖斯（Fanny Price）的性格与诗篇学家进行比较，将她重塑为希伯来传统中的女主角，对她的消极态度有了新的认识，并暗示她的作者受圣经模式的影响要比迄今为止所理解的更多。