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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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Road trip
If you’re a bit stir-crazy after fifteen months’ home confinement, the Four Seasons luxury hotel chain has a suggestion for you: drive...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 3, 2021
Interrogating an interrogation
Among my many Janeite pet peeves is the caricaturing of Austen fans as prudish ultraconservatives who stick their fingers in their ears...
Deborah Yaffe
May 6, 2021
Goodbye at last, 2020
A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 31, 2020
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 3, 2020
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 25, 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
Chawton cottage on the brink?
Chawton cottage, the house in Hampshire, England, where Jane Austen lived for the last eight years of her life, is the Austen pilgrimage...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 14, 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
From museum to house
Two years ago, Chawton House Library – a research center for the study of early English writing by women, located in an Elizabethan...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 19, 2020
Eighty years on
The year that began yesterday will not bring us any important Jane Austen anniversaries: The bicentenaries of her death and of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2, 2020
Janeite dream job par excellence
Another of those Janeite dream jobs -- arguably, the biggest Janeite dream job of them all -- has opened up: Jane Austen’s House Museum,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 23, 2019
Going, going. . .
Once again, it’s time to cue a chorus of “If I Were A Rich Janeite”: another Austen artifact is on the market, set to be auctioned on...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 20, 2019
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