June - 2020

The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Sanditon reprieve?

The past six months have been no walk on the beach for passionate fans of the TV adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 29, 2020

A month or two ago, there was no joy in Austenland, as, one by one, treasured Jane Austen events fell victim to coronavirus cancelation....

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 25, 2020

For many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 22, 2020

Among the many long-scheduled events that have fallen victim to our coronavirus moment, the annual Jane Austen Festival in Louisville,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 18, 2020

Chawton cottage, the house in Hampshire, England, where Jane Austen lived for the last eight years of her life, is the Austen pilgrimage...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 15, 2020

Even in quarantine – especially in quarantine? -- Janeites apparently can’t get enough Jane Austen. Or so we might conclude from the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 11, 2020

When I read fanfiction that updates Jane Austen’s stories to contemporary settings, I often find myself exasperated by the names....

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 8, 2020

Jane Austen’s power to console during times of trauma is an established trope by now: cue mention of how British authorities prescribed...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 4, 2020

These days, the internet is awash in posts purporting to explain why social distancing in the Time of Coronavirus is amusingly or...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 1, 2020