Rebranding Chawton House
Nobody called it branding in Jane Austen’s day, although Lord Byron, at least, was an expert practitioner of the craft avant la lettre....
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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
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 8, 2018
Patching together Austen's life
Among the commemorations planned during last year’s bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, one of the most delightful was the Chawton quilt...
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
Nov 30, 2017
Provender, Austen, and the tsar
Pity the poor aristocrat. Your stately home is decaying, your heating bill is through the (leaky) roof, and you lack the millions...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 13, 2017
Cataloging the garden
Over the nearly five years I’ve been blogging about Jane Austen, Jane Austen’s House Museum -- aka Chawton cottage, the beloved...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 25, 2017
Herding sheep
Somewhere out there, lost lambs are baa-ing to return to the fold, and a group of scholarly Bo Peeps is ready to shepherd them home. The...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 22, 2017
Jane Austen passes Go
Last month, it seemed that Jane Austen had truly arrived in the world economy when the new £10 note bearing her portrait went into...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 4, 2017
Teatime in Hampshire
For many Janeites, a visit to Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton, England, is incomplete without a stop at Cassandra’s Cup, the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 1, 2017
SOS for Chawton's horses
Although the Shire horses of Chawton House Library have been dispersed to new homes, the local campaign to reverse that decision...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 27, 2017
Bye-bye to benches
As summer turns to autumn, the Jane Austen bicentenary year enters its final quarter, and winding-up is in the air. The latest evidence:...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 17, 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...
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