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/now/wp-content/uploads/sites/3/2018/11/Devoney-1.png902610“Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world,” said one of Jane Austen’s characters, “and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.” For a line published in 1814’s “Mansfield Park,” it prophetically resonates in the life and work of Â鶹Çø alumna Devoney