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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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Regency roses
I’ve never paid particular attention to flowers in Jane Austen’s novels, but apparently, someone else has been taking note: Earlier this...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 26, 2024
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Approved
It’s coming up on chain-yourself-to-the-bulldozers time for the vocal—but possibly small—band of folks opposed to the erection of a Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 12, 2024
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Woman of Winchester
Dust off those selfie sticks, Janeites: Winchester Cathedral is moving ahead with its controversial plan to place a statue of Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 1, 2024
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Statue wars
The controversy over Winchester Cathedral’s proposed Jane Austen statue is truly the gift that keeps on giving, at least for those of us...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 4, 2024
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Say cheese
As an Anglophile happily married to a Brit, I say this with love: Sometimes the English are just so adorably, hilariously. . . English ....
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 14, 2024
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Bronzing Jane, again
Exactly five years ago, Winchester Cathedral proposed erecting a statue of Jane Austen in the Cathedral Close, in tribute to the most...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 14, 2023
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Mother of controversy
Some years ago – six? Ten? – I stumbled across a mention of an intriguing campaign to raise money for a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft, to...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 19, 2020
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Jane Austen's new look
These days, the internet is awash in posts purporting to explain why social distancing in the Time of Coronavirus is amusingly or...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 1, 2020
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Statues, statues everywhere
Remember back in elementary school, when one kid would get an awesome new toy or a cool pair of shoes, and then everybody had to have...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 4, 2019
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Enough already
Is it possible to have too much Jane Austen? Apparently, the good citizens of Winchester, England, think it is. Last fall, Winchester...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 28, 2019
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An embarrassment of Austen statues
Eighteen months ago, not a single statue of Jane Austen was on public display anywhere in the world. And now, it appears, we will soon...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 20, 2018
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A statue for Chawton
The Hampshire village of Chawton is the mecca of the Janeite faith: the community where Austen spent the last eight years of her life,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 21, 2018
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