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...
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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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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 12
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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 1
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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 4
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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 14
Say cheese
As an Anglophile happily married to a Brit, I say this with love: Sometimes the English are just so adorably, hilariously. . . English ....
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 4
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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 14, 2023
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...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 23, 2022
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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 2, 2021
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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 8, 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 31, 2020
Jane Austen's new look
These days, the internet is awash in posts purporting to explain why social distancing in the Time of Coronavirus is amusingly or...
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