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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
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:...
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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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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 6, 2017
Goodbye to Chawton's horses
When Silicon Valley multimillionaire Sandy Lerner opened Chawton House Library in 2003, the new Janeite landmark in Hampshire, England,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 2, 2017
Complaining with Jane
I like to think that I am not a complainer, but I have to admit that I've done a lot of complaining on this blog. Some of my moans are...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 30, 2017
Camera-ready
Among the many, many activities taking place on the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death earlier this month was the unveiling of a new...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 19, 2017
The Austen ice bucket challenge
There are many things I would be willing to do to secure the future of Chawton House Library, one of the Austen world’s great treasures....
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2017
Such art as hers
For visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum -- aka Chawton cottage -- where Austen spent the last eight years of her life and wrote or...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 21, 2017
Scarlets fever
The past year has brought us a bumper crop of stories about real estate with more or less legit Austen connections. (Mostly less.) Last...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 31, 2017
A rose is a rose
I love the idea of gardening – fresh air! Closeness to nature! The magic of growth and change! I love the results of gardening --...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 28, 2017
Holiday break in Austen country
Any plans late next month? No? Then head over to the web site of Jane Austen 200 – the clearinghouse for events scheduled this year in...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 24, 2017
Longbourn for sale
No one reads Pride and Prejudice and dreams of living at Longbourn. The Bennet family estate, much as Mr. Collins may praise it, is so...
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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...
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