Events

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

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 6

Adaptable

In the two centuries since Jane Austen’s death, her novels have proved almost infinitely adaptable, transmuted into stage plays, radio...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 30

It's that time again

Signs of autumn: Falling leaves. Halloween pumpkins. And the Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, which...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 23

In the mind's eye

Jane Austen’s physical descriptions of her characters are famously sparse. But if you ask me, Anne Elliot, Emma Woodhouse, and Elizabeth...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 2

Treasure chest

Chawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, is one of the treasures of the Janeite...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 25

Dress-up for grownups

As blog readers will recall, the Library of Congress hosted its first-ever Literary Costume Ball earlier this month. Since then, I’ve...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 31

Calling all bookish cosplayers

Quick! Waste no time! You have until today at noon (US Eastern) to enter the lottery for free tickets to the Library of Congress’...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 27

Summer fun

Chawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire, England, once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight, has had a busy...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 20

Semi-native daughter

Jane Austen’s stays in the southern English port of Southampton were short-ish and not especially happy. As a seven-year-old, she...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 19

Using up the leftovers

Before leaving on vacation, I always try to clean out my refrigerator—no point in coming home to sour milk and moldy vegetables. Since I...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 8

Eliza's harp

Jane Austen’s extended family was largely composed of respectable clergymen, naval officers, and landowners, along with their equally...

Deborah Yaffe

May 25

How P&P came to be

It’s a great time for programming at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote or revised all six of her...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 27

Austen in the dreamscape

Australians may have a complicated relationship with Britain, their one-time mother country, but no such ambivalence seems to pervade...