Events 8/13

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

Jane Austen in the age of Zoom

A year ago, I was looking forward to my upcoming appearance at Jane Austen Day, a biannual event sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 25, 2021

A song in our hearts

It’s cold outside, and the pandemic still rages. You may not feel like singing a happy tune. But if you’re a Janeite, someone else is...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 11, 2021

Goodbye at last, 2020

A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 31, 2020

In lieu of a pear tree

It’s a tough year for traditional Christmas celebrations. The eight maids are a-milking in masks. The ten lords are a-leaping six feet...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 3, 2020

Good timing

This weekend, time zones are friendly to Janeites with an appetite for online convening. On paper, it looks like you’d have to choose how...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 5, 2020

Down Under Austen

For Janeites, the highlight of this month’s online social calendar was the Jane Austen Society of North America’s first-ever virtual...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 28, 2020

Chawton cottage panorama

Pandemic life has made clear, at least to me, that online interactions are no substitute for the in-real-life kind. Still, it’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 25, 2020

Jane Austen in Bath, virtually

Had 2020 not been so – well, 2020-ish – throngs of happy Janeites from across the globe would have staggered home earlier this month from...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 27, 2020

Who's in?

Three years ago, blog readers will recall, a branch of the UK’s Society of Young Publishers sponsored a Jane Austen pub quiz – i.e., a...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 19, 2020

Dining out

I don’t know about you, but I miss dinner parties. You remember dinner parties: those occasions on which you gathered with friends –...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 19, 2020

Festival weekend

Just a reminder that this weekend will be an exciting one for Janeites: the online version of the popular Jane Austen Festival–held, in...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 9, 2020

Happy birthday, JAS

A thousand years ago – or, actually, back in January – the big Janeite news of 2020 was shaping up to be the eightieth anniversary of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 8, 2020