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...
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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
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Deborah Yaffe
- May 25, 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 14, 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
- Apr 27, 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
- Feb 3, 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
- Oct 15, 2018
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
- Aug 6, 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
- Jul 23, 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
- Feb 15, 2018
Janeite in residence
They crop up regularly, those Janeite dream jobs. We read the announcements, and we think how lovely it would be to spend hours...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 5, 2018
Rebranding Chawton House
Nobody called it branding in Jane Austen’s day, although Lord Byron, at least, was an expert practitioner of the craft avant la lettre....
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 4, 2017
Good news (at last!) for Chawton House
The past year’s drama at Chawton House Library has sometimes seemed more appropriate to one of the Gothic romances Jane Austen satirized...
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