Mansfield Park and Mummies

Vera Nazarian

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REGENCY ERA PRAISE FOR…

Mansfield Park and Mummies

“A Brilliant Parody of a Portrait!”

—A Certain Lady

“I fought for first possession of this tome at the Lending Library, sustaining but negligible injury to my person. It is regrettable, however, that the Duchess of K. may never walk again.”

—A Gentleman of Taste

“Is it so entirely wrong to love a Mummy?”

—A Lady of Erudition

“Do not allow impressionable young persons near this dreadful book; it is a moral travesty, containing Theatrical scenes and blatant Acting.”

—A Gentleman of Breeding

“QUACK!”

—The Brighton Duck

MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES:

Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights

Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian

Published by Norilana Books at Smashwords

Cover Art Details:

“Miss Pinkerton’s Academy” by George Goodwin Kilburne (1839-1924); “Malvern Hall” by John Constable (1809); “Grabkammer der Nefertari, Gattin des Ramses II., Szene: Der Gott Re-Harakleti und Amentit, die Göttin des Okzidents”; “Photo from Egyptian Gallery, British Museum” by Steve F. E. Cameron (2006-2007).

Interior Illustrations:

“Appendix,” courtesy of Pearson Scott Foresman.

Ebook Edition

February 22, 2012

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Epub Format ISBN:

ISBN-13: 978-1-60762-101-0

ISBN-10: 1-60762-101-0

This book is a work of fiction. All characters, names, locations, and events portrayed in this book are fictional or used in an imaginary manner to entertain, and any resemblance to any real people, situations, or incidents is purely coincidental.

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Dedication

For Janet Chui

My thanks for the mummies!

MANSFIELD PARK AND MUMMIES

Monster Mayhem, Matrimony, Ancient Curses, True Love, and Other Dire Delights

Jane Austen and Vera Nazarian

With Scholarly Footnotes and Appendices

Chapter I

About three thousand years ago, an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh, with infinite riches of his kingdom surrounding him, had the bad luck to die, be embalmed, mummified and then sealed up in his great tomb among the sands of Lower Egypt, and to be thereby raised to the rank of eternity and, quite possibly, deity.