Sightings 9/14

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

Onion Story Pleases Discerning Janeite Reader

Like all Internet-connected Janeites, I had a good giggle last week about the Onion story headlined, “Man Wishes Women In Crowded Bar...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 22, 2018

Minting money from the Austen tenner

The Jane Austen £10 note has been circulating for only four months, but already its most collectible iterations are fetching inflated...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 18, 2018

Austen quizzing

Jane Austen is no stranger to the quiz-show world, on either side of the pond: As blog readers will recall, just four years ago, she got...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 4, 2018

Shades of Pemberley

Jane Austen’s name and image have been appropriated for so many ancillary items – fridge magnets, tote bags, coffee mugs, temporary...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 28, 2017

Christmas comes early for Janeites

People who do not write fiction often have trouble believing that novelists just, you know, make stuff up. These readers seize upon every...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 21, 2017

Jane Austen, flyin' high

It’s not every day that you get to put Jane Austen and Freddie Mercury in the same sentence. But thanks to Norwegian Airlines, a budget...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 18, 2017

Golden fiver on the block

How time flies. It’s been exactly a year since a Scottish art gallery announced that Graham Short, an artist known for his teeny-tiny...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 7, 2017

Serial-number currency

When is $13 worth $9,410? When it’s embodied in a low-serial-number Jane Austen banknote, apparently. Last week, the Bank of England...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 9, 2017

Bye-bye to benches

As summer turns to autumn, the Jane Austen bicentenary year enters its final quarter, and winding-up is in the air. The latest evidence:...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 28, 2017

At last: The Austen tenner

It’s official: Starting today, Brits will be able to buy their tea, their scones -- even their books -- with a fistful of Jane Austen £10...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 14, 2017

Portable Pemberley

We all have our own idea of Pemberley, the quintessential Jane Austen estate. On film, it’s been played by gorgeous Lyme Park, in...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 11, 2017

The bicentenary lives on

The Jane Austen bicentenary is already a month in the rearview mirror, but cute little tie-in pieces are still turning up online –...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 21, 2017