The price of Austen tourism
Last summer, not long after the July 18 bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, officials in the English town of Basingstoke announced that...
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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
May 30, 2018
Excellent women novelists
Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, as all good Janeites know, but it’s another prominent medieval English church that will...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 1, 2018
More reasons to visit Chawton
The most beloved Austen site in England -- Jane Austen’s House Museum, aka Chawton Cottage, the Hampshire home where Austen wrote or...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 1, 2018
Worldwide Jane in 2018
Once upon a time, Jane Austen was a British writer. But today, she’s an international phenomenon, with fan societies on at least five...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 1, 2017
Another stop on the Jane Tour
Keeping track of the many Jane Austen celebrations, conferences, festivals, and exhibits taking place around the world – especially...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 27, 2017
A bit of a quiz
Among Britain’s many contributions to world culture, the pub quiz – a trivia bowl stripped of the unpleasantly stressful requirement to...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 23, 2017
Benefits for Basingstoke
Jane Austen was never squeamish about money-making. In a November 1814 letter to her niece Fanny Knight (#114 in Deirdre Le Faye’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 5, 2017
Austen laurels
D-Day for Janeites – aka July 18, the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s untimely death – is approaching quickly, and a number of UK outlets...
Deborah Yaffe
May 17, 2017
Tragic forty-one
Forty-one is a tragic number for Janeites – the all-too-young age at which Jane Austen left this world exactly two centuries ago, at the...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 30, 2017
Jane lies in Winchester
Now that this Austen bicentenary year is in full swing, the announcements of commemorative events pegged to the July 18 anniversary of...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 26, 2017
Refighting the winning battle
Barely is the metaphorical ink dry on my recent blog post lamenting all the great UK Jane Austen bicentenary events that we American...
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