Comment on structure

The novel is divided into 48 chapters which follow chronologically. The first chapter gives an overview of the history of the Bertram, Norris, and Price families and then proceeds to the time when Fanny is nine years old and first goes to live at Mansfield Park. Her early teenage years are skipped over almost entirely and then the pacing slows down when she reaches eighteen years of age and is on the verge of entering society.