Events 10/13

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

Excellent women novelists

Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, as all good Janeites know, but it’s another prominent medieval English church that will...

Deborah Yaffe

May 30, 2018

More reasons to visit Chawton

The most beloved Austen site in England -- Jane Austen’s House Museum, aka Chawton Cottage, the Hampshire home where Austen wrote or...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 1, 2018

Worldwide Jane in 2018

Once upon a time, Jane Austen was a British writer. But today, she’s an international phenomenon, with fan societies on at least five...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 1, 2018

Another stop on the Jane Tour

Keeping track of the many Jane Austen celebrations, conferences, festivals, and exhibits taking place around the world – especially...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 1, 2017

A bit of a quiz

Among Britain’s many contributions to world culture, the pub quiz – a trivia bowl stripped of the unpleasantly stressful requirement to...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 27, 2017

Benefits for Basingstoke

Jane Austen was never squeamish about money-making. In a November 1814 letter to her niece Fanny Knight (#114 in Deirdre Le Faye’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 23, 2017

Six books

Tomorrow marks the anniversary that we all – or, at least, all those of us who are Janeites – have been waiting for since 2017 dawned:...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 16, 2017

Austen laurels

D-Day for Janeites – aka July 18, the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s untimely death – is approaching quickly, and a number of UK outlets...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 5, 2017

Tragic forty-one

Forty-one is a tragic number for Janeites – the all-too-young age at which Jane Austen left this world exactly two centuries ago, at the...

Deborah Yaffe

May 17, 2017

Jane lies in Winchester

Now that this Austen bicentenary year is in full swing, the announcements of commemorative events pegged to the July 18 anniversary of...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 30, 2017

Refighting the winning battle

Barely is the metaphorical ink dry on my recent blog post lamenting all the great UK Jane Austen bicentenary events that we American...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 26, 2017

Bicentenary envy

The year 2017 brings two severe trials for American Janeites. The first is our inevitable sadness at marking the bicentenary of Jane...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 16, 2017