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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

Who's in?

Three years ago, blog readers will recall, a branch of the UK’s Society of Young Publishers sponsored a Jane Austen pub quiz – i.e., a...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 19, 2020

Happy birthday, JAS

A thousand years ago – or, actually, back in January – the big Janeite news of 2020 was shaping up to be the eightieth anniversary of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 8, 2020

Back to the gardens

The world continues to take baby steps toward reopening after quarantine. For Janeites, the latest encouraging sign is that the gardens...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 1, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

From PhD to CEO

The transformation of Chawton House from purely academic destination into full-service Janeite tourist draw continues: The stately home...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 14, 2018

Death of an Austen descendant

Thanks to her four reproductively prolific brothers – James, Edward, Frank, and Charles produced an impressive total of thirty-three sons...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 5, 2018

The price of Austen tourism

Last summer, not long after the July 18 bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, officials in the English town of Basingstoke announced that...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 22, 2018