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Three years ago, blog readers will recall, a branch of the UK’s Society of Young Publishers sponsored a Jane Austen pub quiz – i.e., a...
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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
Jul 22, 2020
Cash for cream teas and champagne
The havoc that pandemic lockdown has wreaked on an array of arts and cultural organizations is old news by now. Janeites have seen a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 8, 2020
Happy birthday, JAS
A thousand years ago – or, actually, back in January – the big Janeite news of 2020 was shaping up to be the eightieth anniversary of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 1, 2020
Back to the gardens
The world continues to take baby steps toward reopening after quarantine. For Janeites, the latest encouraging sign is that the gardens...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 14, 2020
Chawton cottage on the brink?
Chawton cottage, the house in Hampshire, England, where Jane Austen lived for the last eight years of her life, is the Austen pilgrimage...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 10, 2020
Tuning in to Chawton House
Even in quarantine – especially in quarantine? -- Janeites apparently can’t get enough Jane Austen. Or so we might conclude from the...
Deborah Yaffe
May 31, 2020
Jane Austen's new look
These days, the internet is awash in posts purporting to explain why social distancing in the Time of Coronavirus is amusingly or...
Deborah Yaffe
May 24, 2020
The great (virtual) outdoors
Fresh off their successful Lockdown Literary Festival earlier this month, the indefatigable folks who run Chawton House, the stately home...
Deborah Yaffe
May 18, 2020
Oh, to be in Paris
For some unaccountable reason, lately I find myself fantasizing longingly about travel to exotic destinations. (Not even that exotic! The...
Deborah Yaffe
May 13, 2020
Literature in lockdown
Like everyone else, the Janeite community has been battered by pandemic and lockdown, with iconic tourist sites closed and financially...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 26, 2020
Janeite SOS
It’s no secret that the closing of pretty much everything in response to the coronavirus pandemic has hit non-profits and arts...
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