From museum to house
Two years ago, Chawton House Library – a research center for the study of early English writing by women, located in an Elizabethan...
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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 3, 2020
New views at Chawton House
The reimagining of Chawton House, the Austen-connected stately home and research library in Hampshire, England, continues apace – which...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 6, 2020
Excessively fond of a cottage
If only the Austens had invested in Steventon real estate. Back in 1801, as Janeites will recall, the Rev. George Austen moved out of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 23, 2019
Janeite dream job par excellence
Another of those Janeite dream jobs -- arguably, the biggest Janeite dream job of them all -- has opened up: Jane Austen’s House Museum,...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 4, 2019
Water, water everywhere
It’s been a wet week for Janeites. Last Monday, we were treated to the first trailer for Sanditon, the forthcoming ITV-PBS adaptation of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 24, 2019
Still reading
The fascinating Reading with Austen project, a digital recreation of Edward Austen Knight’s library at Godmersham Park in Kent, got some...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 21, 2019
Chawton cottage at seventy
Seventy years ago this week, the premier Janeite pilgrimage site welcomed its first pilgrims. On July 23, 1949, Chawton cottage, the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 30, 2019
Too darn hot
The dog days of summer are approaching, and perhaps that’s why the amount of Stupid Jane Austen Stuff coming my way seems to have ramped...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 12, 2019
Travelin' on
Two years ago, Dutch journalist Karin Quint ran an admirably efficient Kickstarter campaign that ultimately raised more than $17,000 to...
Deborah Yaffe
May 1, 2019
Talking with Britain's most-photographed man
When I visited the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England, in July 2011, Martin Salter had the day off. At the time, I didn’t know what I...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 21, 2019
Back in Winchester. . .
The cathedral city of Winchester, England, seems to have a love-hate relationship with Jane Austen. Or so we might assume from the odd...
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