Deborah YaffeJul 31, 2017Camera-readyAmong the many, many activities taking place on the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death earlier this month was the unveiling of a new...
Deborah YaffeJul 20, 2017The Austen ice bucket challengeThere are many things I would be willing to do to secure the future of Chawton House Library, one of the Austen world’s great treasures....
Deborah YaffeJul 13, 2017Such art as hersFor visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum -- aka Chawton cottage -- where Austen spent the last eight years of her life and wrote or...
Deborah YaffeJun 22, 2017Scarlets feverThe past year has brought us a bumper crop of stories about real estate with more or less legit Austen connections. (Mostly less.) Last...
Deborah YaffeJun 1, 2017A rose is a roseI love the idea of gardening – fresh air! Closeness to nature! The magic of growth and change! I love the results of gardening --...
Deborah YaffeMay 29, 2017Holiday break in Austen countryAny plans late next month? No? Then head over to the web site of Jane Austen 200 – the clearinghouse for events scheduled this year in...
Deborah YaffeMay 25, 2017Longbourn for saleNo one reads Pride and Prejudice and dreams of living at Longbourn. The Bennet family estate, much as Mr. Collins may praise it, is so...
Deborah YaffeMay 18, 2017Tragic forty-oneForty-one is a tragic number for Janeites – the all-too-young age at which Jane Austen left this world exactly two centuries ago, at the...
Deborah YaffeMay 1, 2017Jane lies in WinchesterNow that this Austen bicentenary year is in full swing, the announcements of commemorative events pegged to the July 18 anniversary of...