For her performance, Piper received a nomination for Best Actress at the 2007
TV Quick and TV Choice Awards. Writing for
The Guardian, Kathryn Flett wrote of the adaptation "if you didn't mind your Austen both mucked about with and a little bit mucky—then it was all good fun, though I think Billie [Piper] may have avoided delving too deeply into the source material in favour of renting
the 1996 adaptation of Emma, so uncannily like
Gwyneth doing British did she sound."
Paula Byrne, in analysing the way the film industry deals with the works of Jane Austen, said "it remains to be seen whether it is possible for there to be a faithful dramatisation of
Mansfield Park". In
Fanny Price, Austen dared to portray a diffident, anxious heroine who nevertheless displays an iron will. Byrne argues that "In this regard, Fanny Price is the most interesting of Austen’s heroines and the one whom the conventions of modern cinema and television are least well qualified to serve". She concluded that the 2007 ITV adaptation of
Mansfield Park failed "because even as fine an actor as Billie Piper failed to capture the simultaneous strength and weakness of Fanny Price". == References ==