Wedding season
Just in case yesterday’s festivities didn’t give you enough of that Valentine’s Day spirit, Biltmore House, the palatial Asheville, N.C.,...
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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
Jan 11, 2016
A big anniversary, one year early
This past weekend saw the kickoff of Jane Austen 200, the Hampshire, England, commemoration of the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death....
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 3, 2015
Austen's living room
Looking for a good place to curl up with your battered copy of Emma, celebrating its bicentennial in two weeks? If you happen to be in...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 17, 2015
Celebrating Austen in Chawton
Jane Austen festivals are a dime a dozen by now, but Jane Austen Regency Week, the nine-day Austen festival that begins this Saturday,...
Deborah Yaffe
May 24, 2015
If your Mr. Right is Mr. Darcy
Was Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy always seen as the quintessential romantic icon, even in that misty prehistoric time known as B.C. (Before...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2015
Calling all Austen nerds
Given the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 18, 2015
Love letters and babies in bonnets
Okay, I admit I’m mostly linking this because I get a kick out of the baby-in-a-bonnet photo. But it’s also true that this coming...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 8, 2015
German Janeites at play
Even if you don’t understand German – and I don’t – you may get a kick out of this YouTube video of a recent Austen-themed ball in the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 19, 2015
Austen-era keyboarding
It’s probably impossible for us twenty-first-century folk, with our high-tech communications, advanced medical care and expansive notions...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 1, 2015
A Jane Austen year
Jane Austen isn't just everywhere; she's all the time. After a busy year celebrating Mansfield Park's two hundredth anniversary,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 29, 2014
Trekkies in bonnets
Are Janeites just Trekkies in bonnets? We Austen fans are used to the Trekkie comparison, which often serves as a shorthand way to...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 12, 2014
What I heard at the AGM
I’m back home after four whirlwind days at the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meeting – held this year in Montreal...
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