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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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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 21, 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
A letter to Anna
Six years ago, the singer Kelly Clarkson was forced to part with a charming little piece of jewelry she had just picked up at auction in...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 24, 2019
Party like it's 2019
Over the last eight years, we’ve marked a plethora of Jane Austen anniversaries: the bicentennials of the publications of all six of her...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 3, 2019
On this day in 1809. . .
Thirty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters As a novelist, Jane Austen was one of the greatest writers...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 26, 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
Jul 23, 2018
Ready for its closeups
A couple of months ago, when Jane Austen’s House Museum unveiled the results of the collaborative quilting project it organized to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 18, 2018
Unveiling the Jane Austen quilts
The delightful Jane Austen Quilt project culminated earlier this month with the unveiling at Jane Austen’s House Museum of two beautiful...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 26, 2018
Jane Austen tidbits
Although it’s been a quiet few weeks on the Austen beat, at least compared with last year’s bicentenary frenzy, a few bits of Janeite...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 19, 2018
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 1, 2018
Patching together Austen's life
Among the commemorations planned during last year’s bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, one of the most delightful was the Chawton quilt...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 8, 2018
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