Better luck this time?
Nearly five years ago, a Canadian lawyer named Tara Rout floated the notion of buying Luckington Court, the UK mansion that played...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 8, 2022
At your service
When you shell out $250 to $450 for a night in a university town’s boutique hotel, what amenities do you expect to get for your money?...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 15, 2022
Sale in Aisle A
Attention, bargain hunters! Five years ago, you would have needed £9 million (about $11 million) to buy Luckington Court, the Cotswolds...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 16, 2022
Putting down roots
One hundred and twenty-five years ago, as Britain’s Queen Victoria marked a milestone sixty years on the throne, the proprietors of...
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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 28, 2022
Under the floorboards
When I was a little girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse. I liked setting up tiny roomscapes filled with detailed, perfectly manageable...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 10, 2022
Eunice the Menace
Last month, a storm named Eunice ravaged large swathes of Europe. In the UK, which was hit especially hard, three people were killed,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 18, 2021
Another mansion for sale
Once again, it’s time for every Janeite’s favorite sport: eying up palatial real estate with tangential Jane Austen associations. Today’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 25, 2021
Selling Scarlets, again
We Janeites would kill to live in an Austen-linked stately home. That goes without saying. But – is it possible that such properties are...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 14, 2021
Listening in on Chawton House
Last summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 4, 2021
Not In Jane's Backyard
Between her father’s death in January 1805 and her move into Chawton cottage in July 1809, Jane Austen was . . . not homeless, certainly,...
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