Mansfield Park - Facts

 Mansfield Park is an estate in Northamptonshire.  Northamptonshire is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to the south and Warwickshire to the west. Northampton is the largest settlement and the county town.

Sir Thomas has businesses in Antigua. Antigua is an island in the Lesser Antilles. 

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There are many references to different types of carriages. One is a barouche. A barouche is a large, open, four-wheeled carriage, both heavy and luxurious, drawn by two horses.

Another is a postchaise. A post-chaise is a fast carriage for traveling post built in the 18th and early 19th centuries. It usually had a closed body on four wheels, sat two to four persons, and was drawn by two or four horses.

The characters in the book intend to perform a play called Lovers' Vows. Lovers' Vows (1798), a play by Elizabeth Inchbald, arguably best known now for having been featured in Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park (1814), is one of at least four adaptations of August von Kotzebue's Das Kind der Liebe. I deals with  sex outside marriage and illegitimate birth. 

At the end of the book Fanny goes to visit her family in Portsmouth. Portsmouth is a port city and naval base on England’s south coast.

William, Fancy's brother, who is in the navy has to report in the Thrush, which is a sloop. A sloop is a sailboat with a single mast typically having only one headsail in front of the mast and one mainsail aft of (behind) the mast.