Places 7/17

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

Crashing at Henry's place

Few of Jane Austen’s heroines are economically secure, so it’s ironic that her modern-day brand has become inextricably associated with...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 7, 2020

In lieu of a pear tree

It’s a tough year for traditional Christmas celebrations. The eight maids are a-milking in masks. The ten lords are a-leaping six feet...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 3, 2020

Chawton cottage panorama

Pandemic life has made clear, at least to me, that online interactions are no substitute for the in-real-life kind. Still, it’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 25, 2020

Window shopping

Even before the coronavirus curtailed recreational travel, the Internet-assisted ogling of Jane Austen-adjacent real estate was one of...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 7, 2020

Beautiful books, glamorous provenance

When valuable editions of Jane Austen’s novels come up for auction, the selling point is usually something about the books themselves:...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 9, 2020

Who's in?

Three years ago, blog readers will recall, a branch of the UK’s Society of Young Publishers sponsored a Jane Austen pub quiz – i.e., a...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 19, 2020

Ruins

Tom Lefroy’s house is crumbling away. To Janeites, this may seem poetic justice for the young Irishman who danced and flirted with the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 26, 2020

Cash for cream teas and champagne

The havoc that pandemic lockdown has wreaked on an array of arts and cultural organizations is old news by now. Janeites have seen a...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 22, 2020

Happy birthday, JAS

A thousand years ago – or, actually, back in January – the big Janeite news of 2020 was shaping up to be the eightieth anniversary of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 8, 2020

Back to the gardens

The world continues to take baby steps toward reopening after quarantine. For Janeites, the latest encouraging sign is that the gardens...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 1, 2020

Chawton cottage on the brink?

Chawton cottage, the house in Hampshire, England, where Jane Austen lived for the last eight years of her life, is the Austen pilgrimage...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 14, 2020

Tuning in to Chawton House

Even in quarantine – especially in quarantine? -- Janeites apparently can’t get enough Jane Austen. Or so we might conclude from the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 10, 2020