Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: Lady Anne Romilly told her friend , the novelist Maria Edgeworth , that '' ( Mansfield Park ) has been pretty generally admired here '' and Edgeworth commented later that `` we have been much entertained with Mansfield Park '' .
Simplified: Lady Anne Romilly told her friend , the writer Maria Edgeworth , that '' ( Mansfield Park ) has been pretty generally admired here '' . Edgeworth later said that `` we have been much entertained with Mansfield Park '' .