Images

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

Good hair day?

What did Jane Austen look like? As I’ve noted before (for example, here and here ), we can’t be sure. We have only one portrait we know...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 14

Regency roses

I’ve never paid particular attention to flowers in Jane Austen’s novels, but apparently, someone else has been taking note: Earlier this...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 26, 2024

Approved

It’s coming up on chain-yourself-to-the-bulldozers time for the vocal—but possibly small—band of folks opposed to the erection of a Jane...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 12, 2024

Woman of Winchester

Dust off those selfie sticks, Janeites: Winchester Cathedral is moving ahead with its controversial plan to place a statue of Jane Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 1, 2024

Statue wars

The controversy over Winchester Cathedral’s proposed Jane Austen statue is truly the gift that keeps on giving, at least for those of us...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 4, 2024

Say cheese

As an Anglophile happily married to a Brit, I say this with love: Sometimes the English are just so adorably, hilariously. . . English ....

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 14, 2024

Head of the table

A playful and intriguing work of decorative art is now on permanent public display in England. And it’s got a Jane Austen angle! I am...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 4, 2024

Bronzing Jane, again

Exactly five years ago, Winchester Cathedral proposed erecting a statue of Jane Austen in the Cathedral Close, in tribute to the most...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 14, 2023

Many happy returns

The return of spring brings many pleasures. Flowers! Baby birds! And, of course, a new Jane Austen bobblehead! Back in 2020, the North...

Deborah Yaffe

May 23, 2022

Jane and the feathered friend

Jane Austen assuredly never saw a penguin: According to the Zoological Society of London, it wasn’t until 1865, nearly fifty years after...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 2, 2021

Another side of Austen

Jane Austen’s silhouette – or, at least, a silhouette that has come to be identified with her – is ubiquitous. Despite its uncertain...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 2, 2021

All the Janes

Janeites have a curious affinity for images of Our Author – even though, as I’ve noted before, we’ll never really know what she looked...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 8, 2021