Austen-linked fixer-upper
By now, I’m used to reading real estate listings that hype every tiniest link to Jane Austen: An oast house on a farm where her father...
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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
- Dec 10, 2020
Our cousins' street
Many Janeites lack an intimate familiarity with the geography of class in Regency England; we – by which I mean I – can’t tell our Edward...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 8, 2020
Window shopping
Even before the coronavirus curtailed recreational travel, the Internet-assisted ogling of Jane Austen-adjacent real estate was one of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 6, 2020
Excessively fond of a cottage
If only the Austens had invested in Steventon real estate. Back in 1801, as Janeites will recall, the Rev. George Austen moved out of the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 31, 2019
A house in Austen country
As regular blog readers know, I find few pursuits more enjoyable than the ogling of Jane Austen-related real estate. This week’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 6, 2018
Jane Austen in Hampstead
For sale: four-bedroom, two-bathroom, 2,400-square-foot house that -- as the long-time residence of Elizabeth Jenkins, Jane Austen’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 17, 2018
Austenland for real?
Over the years, I’ve swooned about Austen-linked real estate coming up for sale or rent. Perhaps I have said things like, “If money were...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 22, 2017
Scarlets fever
The past year has brought us a bumper crop of stories about real estate with more or less legit Austen connections. (Mostly less.) Last...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 25, 2017
Longbourn for sale
No one reads Pride and Prejudice and dreams of living at Longbourn. The Bennet family estate, much as Mr. Collins may praise it, is so...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 21, 2016
The oast with the most
Jane Austen and real estate: That’s a familiar subject. Whether it’s grand mansions said to be the model for Pemberley, or modest homes...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 12, 2015
Palatial fixer-upper sells at last
It’s been a year since the imagination of real-estate-coveting Janeites was captured by the news that Wentworth Woodhouse, a humongously...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 13, 2014
Pemberley for sale
Ogling unattainable real estate is one of life’s great pleasures, and the mother of all real estate ogling is upon us now: Wentworth...
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