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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

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 21, 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 23, 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 25, 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 22, 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 17, 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 25, 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

Cataloging the garden

Over the nearly five years I’ve been blogging about Jane Austen, Jane Austen’s House Museum -- aka Chawton cottage, the beloved...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 13, 2017

Teatime in Hampshire

For many Janeites, a visit to Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, England, is incomplete without a stop at Cassandra’s Cup, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 4, 2017