Places 8/17

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'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

Chawton cottage at seventy

Seventy years ago this week, the premier Janeite pilgrimage site welcomed its first pilgrims. On July 23, 1949, Chawton cottage, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 21, 2019