The Youngest Miss Ward

<p><b>With imagination and authenticity Joan Aiken captures the customs and language of Austen&rsquo;s England in this one of a kind sequel to Jane Austen's classic novel, <i>Mansfield Park</i>, revealing a subversive and unique heroine.</b><br><br>Harriet Ward, know as Hatty to her sisters, is treated with utter contempt by most of her family. Lacking the beauty that her older sisters inherited she is left without a dowry to care for their ill mother once her sisters are married off.<br><br>Sent to Portsmouth to live with her rumbustious uncle and cousins, Hatty turns her creative flair to poetry and believes she must become a governess. That is until handsome Lord Camber passes through town . . .<br><br><b>Jane Austen&rsquo;s <i>Mansfield Park</i> famously narrates the story of poor little Fanny Price sent to live with her mother's grander sisters - the Ward family. Written almost two