Places 16/17

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

Janeite fun with technology

No money for a tour of Jane Austen sites in England? Worry not: a diligent Janeite named LuciaM has painstakingly created a Google Earth...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 3, 2014

Austen schooling

Admittedly, the only connection between the author Jane Austen and England’s new Jane Austen College is the name. But I’m so charmed by...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 28, 2014

Another Jane Austen sighting

My Jane Austen Google alert this weekend pointed me to this alluring yet unsatisfactory story in the Halstead Gazette, which covers the...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 7, 2014

In charge at the cottage

I just can’t get enough of these Janeite dream jobs. Last year, Cassandra’s Cup, the tea shop across the road from Chawton cottage, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 6, 2014

Waxing Jane

The biggest news in the Janeite world last week was the unveiling of a new waxwork of Our Jane at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 13, 2014

Sleep under Jane Austen's roof

Yet another goodie for Janeites to gaze at wistfully: an opportunity to win a mid-week stay in Bath, England, in a building described as...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 20, 2014

Life among the ruins

Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald ran an engrossing interview this past weekend with Caroline Knight, a great-greatgreatgreatI'velostcoun...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 6, 2014

Darcy in Lilliput

When a twelve-foot-high fiberglass statue of wet-shirt-Darcy was erected in a famed London lake last summer, it seemed the apotheosis of...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 19, 2014

Another Janeite dream job

Last year, I briefly indulged a Janeite fantasy as I imagined plunking down a cool million dollars to buy Cassandra’s Cup, the teashop...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 12, 2014

Goofy Austen News; or, Any Link to Jane Will Do

There are weeks when all you hear about Jane Austen is staid, decorous stuff: the prospect of a new film adaptation, or the exhibit of a...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 27, 2014

Vicariously visiting Jane Austen's England

This summer, the Jane Austen Society of North America will once again sponsor a tour of Austen sites in England – the places she lived,...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 20, 2014

Tiny Regency furniture

I can’t imagine anything more fun than the you-got-your-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter combination of Jane Austen and dollhouse...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 14, 2013