When I was a little girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse. I liked setting up tiny roomscapes filled with detailed, perfectly manageable...

Last month, a storm named Eunice ravaged large swathes of Europe. In the UK, which was hit especially hard, three people were killed,...

It’s a hopeless task -- the effort to convince casual fans that Jane Austen isn’t really the patron saint of weddings. No matter how...

Once again, it’s time for every Janeite’s favorite sport: eying up palatial real estate with tangential Jane Austen associations. Today’s...

We Janeites would kill to live in an Austen-linked stately home. That goes without saying. But – is it possible that such properties are...

Last summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...

Between her father’s death in January 1805 and her move into Chawton cottage in July 1809, Jane Austen was . . . not homeless, certainly,...

Wandering around the English countryside in early autumn while talking about literature: sounds idyllic, no? And so I sighed enviously as...

Ah, the passive voice. It conceals a multitude of sins. The other day, I happened across one of my favorite genres of newspaper story:...

As we Pride and Prejudice readers know, Mr. Darcy’s responsible stewardship of his beautiful grounds at Pemberley is an important factor...

If you’re a bit stir-crazy after fifteen months’ home confinement, the Four Seasons luxury hotel chain has a suggestion for you: drive...

By now, I’m used to reading real estate listings that hype every tiniest link to Jane Austen: An oast house on a farm where her father...