Places 12/17

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

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

A rose is a rose

I love the idea of gardening – fresh air! Closeness to nature! The magic of growth and change! I love the results of gardening --...

Deborah Yaffe

May 31, 2017