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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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The beautiful grounds at Pemberley
By now, pretty much every Janeite in the known universe has seen the moment in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...
Deborah Yaffe
May 13, 2018
Gateway to Austen's education
Few are the places with genuine Jane Austen connections. Austen’s birthplace, Steventon Rectory, was razed in the nineteenth century;...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 8, 2018
Unveiling the Jane Austen quilts
The delightful Jane Austen Quilt project culminated earlier this month with the unveiling at Jane Austen’s House Museum of two beautiful...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 25, 2018
Angst in Adlestrop
Sometimes the English are just so. . . English that you can’t help giggling. And so it was earlier this month, when I happened across the...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 22, 2018
Jane Austen tidbits
Although it’s been a quiet few weeks on the Austen beat, at least compared with last year’s bicentenary frenzy, a few bits of Janeite...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 19, 2018
Janeite in residence
They crop up regularly, those Janeite dream jobs. We read the announcements, and we think how lovely it would be to spend hours...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 15, 2018
Rebranding Chawton House
Nobody called it branding in Jane Austen’s day, although Lord Byron, at least, was an expert practitioner of the craft avant la lettre ....
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 5, 2018
More reasons to visit Chawton
The most beloved Austen site in England -- Jane Austen’s House Museum, aka Chawton Cottage, the Hampshire home where Austen wrote or...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 1, 2018
Patching together Austen's life
Among the commemorations planned during last year’s bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, one of the most delightful was the Chawton quilt...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 8, 2018
Good news (at last!) for Chawton House
The past year’s drama at Chawton House Library has sometimes seemed more appropriate to one of the Gothic romances Jane Austen satirized...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 4, 2017
Provender, Austen, and the tsar
Pity the poor aristocrat. Your stately home is decaying, your heating bill is through the (leaky) roof, and you lack the millions...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 30, 2017
Cataloging the garden
Over the nearly five years I’ve been blogging about Jane Austen, Jane Austen’s House Museum -- aka Chawton cottage, the beloved...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 13, 2017
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