And yet Mansfield Park is not much known or lauded. Some commentaries I've read take a rather too modern view and consider Fanny Price as over-submissive, passive and, in short,a wimp! ("Fotherington-Thomas is wet and a weed...") You're the first person I've ever heard 'regard it as the greatest novel ever written' and it cheers me, because I've thought so too for more than half a century!