Jane Austen, trumped
For an American, a British spouse confers certain advantages. Your tea will always be expertly brewed. Your friends will find the accent...
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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
Mar 9, 2017
On the trail of great writers
Logically, there’s no particular reason we dedicated readers should yearn to visit the houses where our favorite writers were born, grew...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2017
Floor-to-ceiling Austen
The curators of Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton are hard at work freshening the place up for this year’s commemoration of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 23, 2017
Bronzing Austen
Nobody knows what Jane Austen looked like. Nobody will ever know what Jane Austen looked like. So, naturally, we’ll soon have a new image...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 22, 2016
Jane Austen, citizen of the world
Jane Austen is often seen as quintessentially English, in her portraits of a rural middle-class life dominated by the gentry and the...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 12, 2016
Miss Bates, vindicated
Miss Bates has an optimistic outlook on life (“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do”) but not...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 8, 2016
Jane's fundraising
As every homeowner knows, the passage of time can wreak havoc on even the best-constructed building. Paint peels, window frames warp,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 1, 2016
Mis-inspiration
Admit it: It’s always satisfying to see Janeites slapping down silly, unprovable, probably inaccurate speculation about Jane Austen....
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 17, 2016
Travels in translation
Jane Austen’s novels are filled with tourism: think Catherine Morland in Bath, Elizabeth Bennet in Derbyshire, the Dashwood sisters in...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 14, 2016
It's raining Austen
In Basingstoke, there will be benches. And in Winchester, there will be disappearing ink. The bicentenary year of Jane Austen’s death...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 7, 2016
Lerner leaves Chawton House
Unless Queen Elizabeth II is a secret Austen fan, the richest living Janeite is probably Sandy Lerner, the co-founder of Cisco Systems...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 18, 2016
Women's work, international edition
When I was a girl – yes, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth – I was a dab hand at needlepoint. I stitched plastic canvas into keepsake...
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