Christina Boyd interviewed author, podcaster, and spiritual explorer Fern Ronay. She has lived in Manhattan, Chicago, and now sunny Los Angeles with her husband, but she always considers herself a Jersey girl. She is the author of two novels, Better in the Morning and Better Believe It, and is the host of the podcast Signs from the Other Side.

Mary Crawford…a cosmo girl? That complex, charming, antagonist from Mansfield Park? Sure. And why not? To me, her tractable morals…