How AWN's Mansfield Park Book Club got it's name.

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Sharon
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Mansfield Park is a novel by Jane Austen, written at Chawton Cottage where she lived the last 8 years of her life.  This is where Jane wrote, and revised six novels, two of which were published posthumously.

Dr. Tony Attwood, author of The Complete Guide To Asperger's Syndrome wrote a foreward in the book, So Odd a Mixture: Along the Autistic Spectrum in "Pride and Prejudice." 

Dr. Attwood is quoted as saying, "Jane Austen was an astute observer of people and relationships and she describes and obviously knew people who today could have been referred to a clinician for a diagnostic assessment for Asperger's syndrome."


Jane Austen's House, Chawton Cottage