Places 11/17

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

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

Herding sheep

Somewhere out there, lost lambs are baa-ing to return to the fold, and a group of scholarly Bo Peeps is ready to shepherd them home. The...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 25, 2017