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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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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...
Deborah Yaffe
May 27, 2021
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
Dec 10, 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
Oct 8, 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 6, 2020
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
Jan 31, 2019
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
Sep 6, 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
May 17, 2018
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
Jun 22, 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
May 25, 2017
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
Jul 21, 2016
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 12, 2015
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 13, 2014
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