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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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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
Jane Austen passes Go
Last month, it seemed that Jane Austen had truly arrived in the world economy when the new £10 note bearing her portrait went into...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 22, 2017
Teatime in Hampshire
For many Janeites, a visit to Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, England, is incomplete without a stop at Cassandra’s Cup, the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 4, 2017
SOS for Chawton's horses
Although the Shire horses of Chawton House Library have been dispersed to new homes, the local campaign to reverse that decision...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 1, 2017
Bye-bye to benches
As summer turns to autumn, the Jane Austen bicentenary year enters its final quarter, and winding-up is in the air. The latest evidence:...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 27, 2017
Chawton Kremlinology
The ongoing saga of Chawton House Library’s beloved Shire horses – likely casualties of the Austen site’s cost-cutting campaign – is...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 17, 2017
Goodbye to Chawton's horses
When Silicon Valley multimillionaire Sandy Lerner opened Chawton House Library in 2003, the new Janeite landmark in Hampshire, England,...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 6, 2017
Complaining with Jane
I like to think that I am not a complainer, but I have to admit that I've done a lot of complaining on this blog. Some of my moans are...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 2, 2017
Camera-ready
Among the many, many activities taking place on the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death earlier this month was the unveiling of a new...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 30, 2017
The Austen ice bucket challenge
There 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 Yaffe
Jul 19, 2017
Such art as hers
For visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum -- aka Chawton cottage -- where Austen spent the last eight years of her life and wrote or...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2017
Scarlets fever
The past year has brought us a bumper crop of stories about real estate with more or less legit Austen connections. (Mostly less.) Last...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 21, 2017
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