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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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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
Jane Austen's new look
These days, the internet is awash in posts purporting to explain why social distancing in the Time of Coronavirus is amusingly or...
Deborah Yaffe
May 31, 2020
The great (virtual) outdoors
Fresh off their successful Lockdown Literary Festival earlier this month, the indefatigable folks who run Chawton House, the stately home...
Deborah Yaffe
May 24, 2020
Oh, to be in Paris
For some unaccountable reason, lately I find myself fantasizing longingly about travel to exotic destinations. (Not even that exotic! The...
Deborah Yaffe
May 18, 2020
Literature in lockdown
Like everyone else, the Janeite community has been battered by pandemic and lockdown, with iconic tourist sites closed and financially...
Deborah Yaffe
May 13, 2020
Janeite SOS
It’s no secret that the closing of pretty much everything in response to the coronavirus pandemic has hit non-profits and arts...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 26, 2020
From museum to house
Two years ago, Chawton House Library – a research center for the study of early English writing by women, located in an Elizabethan...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 19, 2020
New views at Chawton House
The reimagining of Chawton House, the Austen-connected stately home and research library in Hampshire, England, continues apace – which...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 3, 2020
Excessively fond of a cottage
If only the Austens had invested in Steventon real estate. Back in 1801, as Janeites will recall, the Rev. George Austen moved out of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 6, 2020
Janeite dream job par excellence
Another of those Janeite dream jobs -- arguably, the biggest Janeite dream job of them all -- has opened up: Jane Austen’s House Museum,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 23, 2019
Water, water everywhere
It’s been a wet week for Janeites. Last Monday, we were treated to the first trailer for Sanditon, the forthcoming ITV-PBS adaptation of...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 4, 2019
Still reading
The fascinating Reading with Austen project, a digital recreation of Edward Austen Knight’s library at Godmersham Park in Kent, got some...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 24, 2019
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