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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

Listening in on Chawton House

Last summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 14, 2021

On this day in 1813. . .

Sixty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Nostalgia for Jane Austen’s era has always struck me as...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 16, 2021

On this day in 1808. . .

Sixty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. You know how as soon as you return from vacation, it feels as...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 1, 2021

On this day in 1811. . .

Sixty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Jane Austen was perfectly capable of writing a sensitive...

Deborah Yaffe

May 31, 2021

Recovering a literary Holy Grail

It’s been more than three years since a trio of passionate Janeites formed the Godmersham Lost Sheep Society (GLOSS), an organization...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 7, 2021

On this day in 1798. . .

Fifty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. When Jane Austen sat down to write a letter to her sister,...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 28, 2020

Still reading

The fascinating Reading with Austen project, a digital recreation of Edward Austen Knight’s library at Godmersham Park in Kent, got some...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 25, 2019

Chawton cottage at seventy

Seventy years ago this week, the premier Janeite pilgrimage site welcomed its first pilgrims. On July 23, 1949, Chawton cottage, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 22, 2019

Family album

The Janeite world is a-twitter (and a-Twitter) this week over the serendipitous discovery of a Victorian photo album filled with pictures...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 17, 2019

On this day in 1813. . .

Thirty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen never lived alone. From her earliest days,...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 24, 2018

On this day in 1796. . .

Thirty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The young Jane Austen was a voracious reader. We know this...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 23, 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 6, 2018