Statues, statues everywhere
Remember back in elementary school, when one kid would get an awesome new toy or a cool pair of shoes, and then everybody had to have...
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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 28, 2019
Enough already
Is it possible to have too much Jane Austen? Apparently, the good citizens of Winchester, England, think it is. Last fall, Winchester...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 31, 2019
A house in Austen country
As regular blog readers know, I find few pursuits more enjoyable than the ogling of Jane Austen-related real estate. This week’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 10, 2019
A tourist in Bath
Last Thursday, James McAvoy, the excellent Scottish actor who played Jane Austen’s crush Tom Lefroy in the 2007 film Becoming Jane, paid...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 20, 2018
An embarrassment of Austen statues
Eighteen months ago, not a single statue of Jane Austen was on public display anywhere in the world. And now, it appears, we will soon...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 3, 2018
Austen connections
At this point in Jane Austen’s career of pop-culture celebrity, it’s no surprise that every place with even a tangential connection to...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 15, 2018
Missing pieces
From time to time, you happen across a story that makes clear how entirely some people miss the point of Jane Austen. For instance, when...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 21, 2018
In Edward's library
In September 1813, Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra, from their brother Edward’s library at Godmersham Park in Kent. As regular...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 14, 2018
From PhD to CEO
The transformation of Chawton House from purely academic destination into full-service Janeite tourist draw continues: The stately home...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 9, 2018
Naked(-ish) in Bath
Poor never-married Jane Austen: Lacking nuptials, she never got a bachelorette party, either. Strange, then – not to say strangely...
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