Places 9/17

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

Too darn hot

The dog days of summer are approaching, and perhaps that’s why the amount of Stupid Jane Austen Stuff coming my way seems to have ramped...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 30, 2019

Friends

Although Jane Austen is a quintessentially British writer, her admirers in North America are legion. Indeed, the Jane Austen Society of...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 16, 2019

Travelin' on

Two years ago, Dutch journalist Karin Quint ran an admirably efficient Kickstarter campaign that ultimately raised more than $17,000 to...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 12, 2019

Talking with Britain's most-photographed man

When I visited the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England, in July 2011, Martin Salter had the day off. At the time, I didn’t know what I...

Deborah Yaffe

May 1, 2019

Back in Winchester. . .

The cathedral city of Winchester, England, seems to have a love-hate relationship with Jane Austen. Or so we might assume from the odd...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 21, 2019

Statues, statues everywhere

Remember back in elementary school, when one kid would get an awesome new toy or a cool pair of shoes, and then everybody had to have...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 3, 2019

Enough already

Is it possible to have too much Jane Austen? Apparently, the good citizens of Winchester, England, think it is. Last fall, Winchester...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 28, 2019

A house in Austen country

As regular blog readers know, I find few pursuits more enjoyable than the ogling of Jane Austen-related real estate. This week’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 31, 2019

A tourist in Bath

Last Thursday, James McAvoy, the excellent Scottish actor who played Jane Austen’s crush Tom Lefroy in the 2007 film Becoming Jane, paid...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 10, 2019

Ghosts

The voracious interest in all things Jane Austen has inspired plenty of scholarship about her ancestors and her collateral descendants –...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 27, 2018

An embarrassment of Austen statues

Eighteen months ago, not a single statue of Jane Austen was on public display anywhere in the world. And now, it appears, we will soon...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 20, 2018

Austen connections

At this point in Jane Austen’s career of pop-culture celebrity, it’s no surprise that every place with even a tangential connection to...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 3, 2018