Strange brew
One of the many, many reasons I am glad not to live in the time of Jane Austen – right up there with the absence of antibiotics, reliable...
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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
- Jul 22, 2020
Cash for cream teas and champagne
The havoc that pandemic lockdown has wreaked on an array of arts and cultural organizations is old news by now. Janeites have seen a...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 1, 2019
Talking with Britain's most-photographed man
When I visited the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England, in July 2011, Martin Salter had the day off. At the time, I didn’t know what I...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 3, 2019
Statues, statues everywhere
Remember back in elementary school, when one kid would get an awesome new toy or a cool pair of shoes, and then everybody had to have...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 10, 2019
A tourist in Bath
Last Thursday, James McAvoy, the excellent Scottish actor who played Jane Austen’s crush Tom Lefroy in the 2007 film Becoming Jane, paid...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 1, 2018
Down on Up Lit
One of the most useful sentences Jane Austen ever wrote is surely this one: “Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick & wicked.”...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 19, 2017
A fiver to Bath
The Roald Dahl-flavored tale of the four specially engraved, possibly valuable Jane Austen £5 notes continues to be The Story That Will...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 26, 2017
Jane Austen, trumped
For an American, a British spouse confers certain advantages. Your tea will always be expertly brewed. Your friends will find the accent...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 27, 2017
Context is everything
Once or twice in the past, I have mentioned my aversion to lists of Jane Austen quotes – or mugs with Jane Austen quotes, or, indeed, any...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 14, 2016
Spotlighted
I subscribe to the weekly newsletter of the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England, so imagine my excitement when this week’s edition...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 24, 2016
Austen must-sees
I am, of course, aware that online listicles with titles like “22 Places in the UK That Are a Must-See for Jane Austen Fans” are silly...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 10, 2016
Piece by piece
Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of a Janeite teapot tempest – the purchase at auction, by American singer Kelly Clarkson, of a...
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