Jeopardy and peril at Chawton House
Twenty years ago this summer, American tech mogul and Janeite Sandy Lerner finished up her multimillion-dollar restoration of an...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 14, 2021
Listening in on Chawton House
Last summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 15, 2018
From PhD to CEO
The transformation of Chawton House from purely academic destination into full-service Janeite tourist draw continues: The stately home...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 4, 2017
Good news (at last!) for Chawton House
The past year’s drama at Chawton House Library has sometimes seemed more appropriate to one of the Gothic romances Jane Austen satirized...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 18, 2017
Chawton Kremlinology
The ongoing saga of Chawton House Library’s beloved Shire horses – likely casualties of the Austen site’s cost-cutting campaign – is...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 20, 2017
The Austen ice bucket challenge
There are many things I would be willing to do to secure the future of Chawton House Library, one of the Austen world’s great treasures....
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 7, 2016
Lerner leaves Chawton House
Unless Queen Elizabeth II is a secret Austen fan, the richest living Janeite is probably Sandy Lerner, the co-founder of Cisco Systems...
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