Places 15/15

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

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 20, 2014

Sleep under Jane Austen's roof

Yet another goodie for Janeites to gaze at wistfully: an opportunity to win a mid-week stay in Bath, England, in a building described as...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 6, 2014

Life among the ruins

Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald ran an engrossing interview this past weekend with Caroline Knight, a great-greatgreatgreatI'velostcoun...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 19, 2014

Darcy in Lilliput

When a twelve-foot-high fiberglass statue of wet-shirt-Darcy was erected in a famed London lake last summer, it seemed the apotheosis of...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 12, 2014

Another Janeite dream job

Last year, I briefly indulged a Janeite fantasy as I imagined plunking down a cool million dollars to buy Cassandra’s Cup, the teashop...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 27, 2014

Goofy Austen News; or, Any Link to Jane Will Do

There are weeks when all you hear about Jane Austen is staid, decorous stuff: the prospect of a new film adaptation, or the exhibit of a...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 20, 2014

Vicariously visiting Jane Austen's England

This summer, the Jane Austen Society of North America will once again sponsor a tour of Austen sites in England – the places she lived,...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 14, 2013

Tiny Regency furniture

I can’t imagine anything more fun than the you-got-your-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter combination of Jane Austen and dollhouse...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 21, 2013

Janeite fantasy: Buy Cassandra's Cup

Janeite fantasies don't get much more fantastic than this: Cassandra's Cup, the tea shop located directly opposite Jane Austen's House...