by Jane Austen
Stroud, Dorothy, Humphry Repton (London, 1962)
Stuart, David, Georgian Gardens (London, 1979)
———, The Kitchen Garden: A Historical Guide to Traditional Crops (London, 1984)
Thacker, Christopher, The History of Gardens (Berkeley, 1979)
Williamson, Tom, Polite Landscapes: Gardens and Society in Eighteenth-Century England (Baltimore, 1995)
Wilson, C. Anne, The Country House Kitchen Garden, 1600–1950 (Thrupp, Oxfordshire, and Stroud, Gloucestershire, 1998)
Wilson, Kim, In the Garden with Jane Austen (London, 2008)
Flowers
Fogg, H. G. Witham, History of Popular Garden Plants from A to Z (London, 1977)
Hollingsworth, Buckner, Flower Chronicles (New Brunswick, NJ, 1958)
Potter, Jennifer, The Rose: A True History (London, 2010)
Houses
Chambers, James, The English House (New York, 1985)
Christie, Christopher, The British Country House in the Eighteenth Century (New York, 2000)
Girouard, Mark, Life in the English Country House: A Social and Architectural History (New Haven, 1978)
———, Town and Country (New Haven, 1992)
Jackson-Stops, Gervase, et al., eds., The Fashioning and Functioning of the British Country House (Washington, DC, 1989)
Jackson-Stops, Gervase, and James Pipkin, The English Country House: A Grand Tour (Boston, 1985)
Pevsner, Nikolaus, “The Architectural Setting of Jane Austen’s Novels,” Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 31 (1968): 404–22.
Reid, Richard, The Georgian House and Its Details (Bath, 1989)
Tristram, Philippa, Living Space in Fact and Fiction (London, 1989)
Wilson, Richard, and Alan Mackley, Creating Paradise: The Building of the English Country House, 1660–1880 (London, 2000)
Interior Decoration
Blakemore, Robbie G., History of Interior Design Furniture: From Ancient Egypt to Nineteenth-Century Europe (New York, 1997)
Bly, John, Discovering English Furniture (Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, 1976)
Boyce, Charles, Dictionary of Furniture (New York, 2001)
Calloway, Stephen, ed., The Elements of Style: A Practical Encyclopedia of Interior Architectural Details from 1485 to the Present (New York, 1991)
Crowley, John E., The Invention of Comfort: Sensibilities and Design in Early Modern America and Early Modern Britain (Baltimore, 2001)
Edwards, Ralph, and L. G. G. Ramsey, The Connoisseur’s Period Guides to the Houses, Decoration, Furnishing and Chattels of the Classic Periods, Vol. 4: The Late Georgian Period, 1760–1810, and Vol. 5: The Regency Period, 1810–1830 (London, 1958)
Fastnedge, Ralph, English Furniture Styles: From 1500 to 1830 (London, 1955)
Gloag, John, Georgian Grace: A Social History of Design from 1660 to 1830 (London, 1956)
Jourdain, Margaret, English Interior Decoration, 1500–1830: A Study in the Development of Design (London, 1950)
———, Regency Furniture, 1795–1830 (London, 1965)
Jourdain, Margaret, and F. Rose, English Furniture: The Georgian Period (1750–1830) (London, 1953)
Morley, John, The History of Furniture: Twenty-Five Centuries of Style and Design in the Western Tradition (Boston, 1999)
———, Regency Design, 1790–1840 (London, 1993)
Parissien, Steven, Adam Style (Washington, DC, 1992)
———, The Georgian House in America and Britain (New York, 1995)
———, Regency Style (Washington, DC, 1992)
Rogers, John, English Furniture (Feltham, 1967)
Smith, Charles Saumarez, Eighteenth-Century Decoration: Design and the Domestic Interior in England (New York, 1993)
Snodin, Michael, and John Styles, Design and the Decorative Arts: Georgian Britain, 1714–1837 (London, 2004)
Thornton, Peter, Authentic Decor: The Domestic Interior, 1620–1920 (New York, 1984)
———, Form & Decoration: Innovation in the Decorative Arts, 1470–1870 (London, 1998)
Vickery, Amanda, Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (New Haven, 2009)
Watkins, Susan, Jane Austen in Style (New York, 1996)
Female Decorative Activities
Beck, Thomasina, The Embroiderer’s Story: Needlework from the Renaissance to the Present Day (Devon, 1995)
Bermingham, Ann, Learning to Draw: Studies in the Cultural History of a Polite and Useful Art (New Haven, 2000)
Forest, Jennifer, Jane Austen’s Sewing Box (Millers Point, New South Wales, 2009)
Hughes, Therle, English Domestic Needlework, 1660–1860 (London, 1961)
Rogers, Gay Ann, Illustrated History of Needlework Tools (London, 1983)
Taunton, Nerylla, Antique Needlework Tools and Embroideries (Woodbridge, Suffolk, 1997)
The Young Lady’s Book: A Manual of Elegant Recreations, Exercises, and Pursuits (London, 1829)
Transparencies
Imison, John, Elements of Science and Art (London, 1803)
Roberts, James, Introductory Lessons, with Familiar Examples in Landscape (London, 1800)
Smith, James, The Panorama of Science and Art (Liverpool, 1815)
Jewelry
Evans, Joan, History of Jewellery, 1100–1870 (London, 1953)
Scarisbrick, Diana, Jewellery in Britain: A Dcoumentary, Social, Literary, and Artistic Survey (Wilby, Suffolk, 1984)
Beauty and Fashion
Ashelford, Jane, The Art of Dress: Clothes and Society, 1500–1914 (New York, 1996)
Byrde, Penelope, A Frivolous Distinction: Fashion and Needlework in the Works of Jane Austen (Bristol, 1979)
Corson, Richard, Fashions in Hair: The First Five Thousand Years (New York, 1965)
Cunnington, C. Willett, English Women’s Clothing in the Nineteenth Century (Mineola, NY, 1990; originally published 1937)
Downing, Sarah Jane, Fashion in the Time of Jane Austen (Oxford, 2010)
Ewing, Elizabeth, Everyday Dress, 1650–1900 (London, 1984)
Foster, Vanda, Visual History of Costume: The Nineteenth Century (London, 1984)
Harris, Jennifer, ed., Textiles, 5,000 Years: An International History and Illustrated Survey (New York, 1993)
Lady of Distinction, The Mirror of the Graces; or, The English Lady’s Costume (London, 1811)
Mackrell, Alice, Shawls, Stoles and Scarves (London, 1986)
Pratt, Lucy, and Linda Woolley, Shoes (London, 1999)
Sherrow, Victoria, Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History (Westport, CT, 2006)
Styles, John, Dress of the People: Everyday Fashion in Eighteenth-Century England (New Haven, 2007)
Swann, June, Shoes (London, 1982)
Food and Dining
Black, Maggie, and Deirdre Le Faye, The Jane Austen Cookbook (Chicago, 1995)
Drummond, J. C., and Anne Wilbraham, The Englishman’s Food: Five Centuries of English Diet (London, 1991)
Glanville, Philippa, and Hilary Young, eds., Elegant Eating: Four Hundred Years of Dining with Style (London, 2002)
Hartley, Dorothy, Food in England (London, 1954)
Hickman, Peggy, A Jane Austen Household Book, with Martha Lloyd’s Recipes (North Pomfret, VT, 1977)
Johnson, Hugh, Vintage: The Story of Wine (New York, 1989)
Lane, Maggie, Jane Austen and Food (London, 1995)
Lehmann, Gilly, The British Housewife: Cookery Books, Cooking and Society in Eighteenth-Century Britain (Totnes, Devon, 2003)
Palmer, Arnold, Movable Feasts (New York, 1952)
Paston-Williams, Sara, The Art of Dining: A History of Cooking and Eating (London, 1993)
Wilson, C. Anne, Food and Drink in Britain: From the Stone Age to Recent Times (London, 1973)
Etiquette
Cunnington, Phyllis, and Catherine Lucas, Costume for Births, Marriages, & Deaths (New York, 1972)
Fritzer, Penelope Joan, Jane Austen and Eighteenth-Century Courtesy Books (Westport, CT, 1997)
Morgan, Marjorie, Mann
ers, Morals and Class in England, 1774–1858 (New York, 1994)
Ross, Josephine, Jane Austen’s Guide to Good Manners (New York, 2006)
Wildeblood, Joan, The Polite World: A Guide to the Deportment of the English in Former Times (London, 1973)
Female Conduct Books
Advice of a Mother to Her Daughter, by the Marchioness of Lambert; A Father’s Legacy to His Daughters, by Dr. Gregory; and The Lady’s New Year’s Gift, or, Advice to a Daughter, by Lord Halifax, in Angelica’s Ladies Library (London, 1794)
Burton, John, Lectures on Female Education and Manners (London, 1793; reprint ed., New York, 1970)
Chapone, Hester, Letters on the Improvement of the Mind (Walpole, NH, 1802; first published London, 1773)
Gisborne, Thomas, An Enquiry into the Duties of the Female Sex (London, 1796)
Trusler, John, Principles of Politeness, and of Knowing the World, in Two Parts (London, 1800)
Fashionable Society
Erickson, Carolly, Our Tempestuous Day: A History of Regency England (New York, 1986)
Greig, Hannah, The Beau Monde: Fashionable Society in Georgian London (Oxford, 2013)
SLAVERY AND THE WEST INDIES
Clarkson, Thomas, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (London, 1808; 1968 reprint)
Dyde, Brian, A History of Antigua: The Unsuspected Isle (London, 2000)
Edwards, Bryan, The History, Civil and Commercial, of the British West Indies (London, 1819)
Goveia, Elsa, Slave Society in British Leeward Islands at the End of the Eighteenth Century (New Haven, 1965)
Knox-Shaw, Peter, Jane Austen and the Enlightenment (Cambridge, 2004)
Oldfield, J. R., Popular Politics and British Anti-Slavery: The Mobilisation of Public Opinion Against the Slave Trade (London, 1998)
Ragatz, Lowell Joseph, The Fall of the Planter Class in the British Caribbean: A Study in Social and Economic History (New York, 1963)
Walvin, James, England, Slaves and Freedom, 1776–1838 (Jackson, MS, 1986)
———, ed., Slavery and British Society, 1776–1846 (Baton Rouge, 1982)
Ward, J. R., British West Indian Slavery: The Process of Amelioration (Oxford, 1988)
White, Gabrielle D. V., Jane Austen in the Context of Abolition: “A fling at the slave trade” (Basingstoke, Hampshire, 2006)
Maps
ENGLAND
Banbury: Where Henry hopes to spend the night on his way to Bath from Mansfield.
Bath: Leading resort town where Henry goes and where Mrs. Rushworth retires.
Beachey Head: Promontory that William uses as a point of reference for Brighton.
Brighton: Seaside resort where Maria and Mr. Rushworth spend their honeymoon.
Cambridge: Where Henry attended university.
Cornwall: County where Mr. Yates first engaged in private theatricals.
Huntingdonshire: County where Lady Bertram, Mrs. Norris, and Mrs. Price are from.
Isle of Wight: Island forming the channel that made Portsmouth an excellent naval base; called “the Island” by Portsmouth residents.
Liverpool: Large port city where Sir Thomas arrives when returning from Antigua.
Newbury: Where Fanny and William spend the night when going to Portsmouth from Mansfield.
Newmarket: Leading center of horse racing; where Tom Bertram becomes ill.
Norfolk: County where Henry owns an estate.
Northampton: Principal town of the County of Northampton, where most of the story occurs; Mansfield Park lies approximately four miles north of Northampton.
Oxford: Where Edmund attended university, and where he and Fanny spend the night when returning to Mansfield from Portsmouth.
Peterborough: Cathedral town where Edmund goes to be ordained.
Portsmouth: Port town containing the principal naval base of Britain; where Fanny is from and where she visits her family.
Ramsgate: Seaside resort visited earlier by Tom.
Scotland: Where Julia and Mr. Yates elope.
Southampton: Port town where Jane Austen lived for three years and acquired the knowledge of Portsmouth she used in the novel.
Twickenham: Popular town for the wealthy where Admiral Crawford bought a cottage and where Henry and Maria advance their illicit flirtation.
Weymouth: Seaside resort where Tom met Mr. Yates.
York: One of the places Henry Crawford claims he would return from at an hour’s notice if summoned to Mansfield Park.
PORTSMOUTH
The Dockyards: Large complex for building and repairing ships; where Fanny, her sister, her father, and Henry Crawford go after Henry arrives.
The Drawbridge (at Landport Gate): Where Fanny and William enter into the town of Portsmouth proper.
Garrison Chapel: Church where the Prices worship.
High Street: Main street in Portsmouth; the Prices live on a small street off High Street.
The Platform: Popular viewing area where Mr. Price sees William’s ship leave the harbor for Spithead.
Portsmouth Point: Where sailors embark and an area notorious for licentious behavior.
The Ramparts: Fortifications surrounding Portsmouth, and also a popular place for walking and enjoying the view.
Spithead: Channel separating Portsmouth from the Isle of Wight and the principal anchorage for naval ships using the Portsmouth base.
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