Places 15/17

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

Color to win

When I was ten years old, or thereabouts, I won a coloring contest sponsored by the local bus company. Since my artistic ability was –...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 23, 2016

Austen's living room

Looking for a good place to curl up with your battered copy of Emma, celebrating its bicentennial in two weeks? If you happen to be in...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 3, 2015

A very (expensive) Jane Austen Christmas

If you are a Janeite with no 2016 Christmas plans – and a whole wad of cash left over from this year’s gift shopping – the New York Times...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 23, 2015

Palatial fixer-upper sells at last

It’s been a year since the imagination of real-estate-coveting Janeites was captured by the news that Wentworth Woodhouse, a humongously...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 12, 2015

Walking Austen country

Jane Austen was a country girl – she spent most of her life in a couple of small villages in Hampshire, England – and even today the...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 5, 2015

Janeite retirement

One of the many pleasures of researching Among the Janeites was the chance it gave me to meet fellow Austen fans from across the country...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 20, 2015

The improvement of the estate

If you liked the inspiring story of how Sandy Lerner turned Edward Austen Knight’s decaying family pile into the beautiful and important...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 12, 2015

Jane Austen slept here

Our first president traveled widely in his efforts to shore up the foundations of our fledgling republic. “Driven by duty to present...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 21, 2015

Cassandra's grief

Cassandra Austen gets a bad rap from Janeites. As I’ve noted before, many of us just can’t forgive her for burning who-knows-how-many of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 3, 2015

Cliffside paradise

So it turns out there’s a cliffside hotel with amazing views of the Pacific where all the rooms are named after famous writers and, since...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 29, 2015

Nice or naff? You decide

“Fierce divisions have broken out among the Guardian books team as to whether this video, bringing a statue of Jane Austen to life, is...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 17, 2014

Pemberley for sale

Ogling unattainable real estate is one of life’s great pleasures, and the mother of all real estate ogling is upon us now: Wentworth...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 13, 2014