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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
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Ready, set, read
Amid all the concerts, exhibits, tea parties, balls, walking tours, screen adaptations, and souvenir merch celebrating the 250 th ...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 11
Seasonable
Autumn is a lovely season in England—cue the Keats : “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”--and for Janeites, this fall offers some...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 8
Time to exhibit
As we approach the last third of this Austen 250 year, the torrent of anniversary-related events shows no sign of abating—especially in...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 18
Austen business is booming
Jane Austen “is on course to have her best year since 2009,” the UK publishing industry magazine The Bookseller reported recently. “In...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 11
Jane on Zoom
Those of us who live within striking distance of New York City have another five weeks in which to catch the Morgan Library & Museum’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 7
Gifts
My husband was sure there would be no gift shop at 8 College Street , the Winchester house where Jane Austen died, and which opened to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 21
Souvenirs for the bookish
Halfway through this year of Austen 250 celebrations, you may be considering what sort of merch would make an appropriate souvenir of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 17
Anniversary splurge
Just last month, I took issue with the travel guru Rick Steves’ questionable claim that “ Bath is the mecca for Austen devotees.” (That...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 3
Jane Austen to the rescue?
“Jane Austen's grave may save a troubled Winchester Cathedral,” the website of Religion News Service proclaimed earlier this year. And...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 30
Everyone's a fan
Discovering a fellow Janeite can be a bittersweet experience. Sometimes it’s the delightful reassurance that you’re not alone in your...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26
Ball of the year?
Hard as we Americans try, there are some things we just can’t do as well as the British. Last month, as blog readers will recall ,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 12
A lively celebration
Fifty years ago, the ardent Janeite collector Alberta Burke--whose husband, Henry, would go on to co-found the Jane Austen Society of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 5
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