Deborah YaffeOct 2Treasure chestChawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, is one of the treasures of the Janeite...
Deborah YaffeJul 27Summer funChawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire, England, once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight, has had a busy...
Deborah YaffeApr 17Jeopardy and peril at Chawton HouseTwenty years ago this summer, American tech mogul and Janeite Sandy Lerner finished up her multimillion-dollar restoration of an...
Deborah YaffeMar 9The scientific methodOver the past three years, the indefatigable Jane Austen & Co. has convened four smart and provocative online lecture series about...
Deborah YaffeSep 15, 2022Broadening the collectionThe last time the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft was the subject of a public fundraising effort, the results were...
Deborah YaffeJun 16, 2022Putting down rootsOne hundred and twenty-five years ago, as Britain’s Queen Victoria marked a milestone sixty years on the throne, the proprietors of...
Deborah YaffeJun 6, 2022On this day in 1811. . .Seventy-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s novels famously contain few detailed...
Deborah YaffeMay 23, 2022Many happy returnsThe return of spring brings many pleasures. Flowers! Baby birds! And, of course, a new Jane Austen bobblehead! Back in 2020, the North...
Deborah YaffeApr 28, 2022Under the floorboardsWhen I was a little girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse. I liked setting up tiny roomscapes filled with detailed, perfectly manageable...
Deborah YaffeMar 10, 2022Eunice the MenaceLast month, a storm named Eunice ravaged large swathes of Europe. In the UK, which was hit especially hard, three people were killed,...
Deborah YaffeOct 14, 2021Listening in on Chawton HouseLast summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...
Deborah YaffeSep 30, 2021Autumn footstepsWandering around the English countryside in early autumn while talking about literature: sounds idyllic, no? And so I sighed enviously as...