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Bonnetfest closeup

If you’re a Janeite who can’t make it to Cincinnati’s Taft Museum of Art this summer – and will therefore miss your chance for an...

Bonnetfest

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away – in other words, in mid-2019 -- I wrote about a traveling exhibition of costumes from Jane...

In lieu of a pear tree

It’s a tough year for traditional Christmas celebrations. The eight maids are a-milking in masks. The ten lords are a-leaping six feet...

Chawton cottage panorama

Pandemic life has made clear, at least to me, that online interactions are no substitute for the in-real-life kind. Still, it’s...

Oh, those clothes. .

The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...

More reasons to visit Chawton

The most beloved Austen site in England -- Jane Austen’s House Museum, aka Chawton Cottage, the Hampshire home where Austen wrote or...

Tragic forty-one

Forty-one is a tragic number for Janeites – the all-too-young age at which Jane Austen left this world exactly two centuries ago, at the...

Refighting the winning battle

Barely is the metaphorical ink dry on my recent blog post lamenting all the great UK Jane Austen bicentenary events that we American...

Wedding season

Just in case yesterday’s festivities didn’t give you enough of that Valentine’s Day spirit, Biltmore House, the palatial Asheville, N.C.,...

A big anniversary, one year early

This past weekend saw the kickoff of Jane Austen 200, the Hampshire, England, commemoration of the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death....

Austen's living room

Looking for a good place to curl up with your battered copy of Emma, celebrating its bicentennial in two weeks? If you happen to be in...