Sacred space
Jane Austen breathed her last on July 18, 1817, in rented rooms at 8 College Street in the English cathedral city of Winchester. For...
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Journalist and author
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
Oct 10
Plain and ornamental
In his 1870 Memoir of Jane Austen , the author’s nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, reports that his famous aunt “was successful in...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 3
Pilgrimage sites
In case you’re looking for another stop on your Jane Austen 250th Birthday Pilgrimage, a church where she once worshiped recently...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 30
Austen-linked teardown
Let us contemplate, for a moment, the kind of wealth that allows you to spend some £17 million ($22.8 million) on a palatial second home...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 26
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 9
R.I.P. Quackers
Let me say up front that I understand that the death of a beloved pet—like the death of a newborn baby --is no laughing matter. And yet,...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 1
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
Jul 25
A stitch in time
The complaints about Winchester Cathedral’s proposed Jane Austen statue have quieted down lately, or so I conclude from the silence of my...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 15
Endangered Dolphin, Part II
The moral seems clear: Bonnets are no match for the brutal imperatives of capitalism. It’s been five months since the owners of a failing...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 24
Making it up as you go along
I love the way the internet just makes stuff up. Kidding! I hate the way the internet just makes stuff up—not least when the stuff it...
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