Jane Austen Festival of Louisville

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

Dec 31, 2020

Goodbye at last, 2020

A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 9, 2020

Festival weekend

Just a reminder that this weekend will be an exciting one for Janeites: the online version of the popular Jane Austen Festival–held, in...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 17, 2020

Lemonade in Louisville

Among the many long-scheduled events that have fallen victim to our coronavirus moment, the annual Jane Austen Festival in Louisville,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 6, 2016

Worldwide Janeite partying

As summer weeks go, the week ahead is looking pretty good for Jane Austen fans: * Tomorrow and Saturday, the Janeites of Port Alberni, in...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 8, 2016

My old Kentucky scone

It is one of my life’s small, poignant sorrows that I have not yet made it to the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, which by...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 24, 2014

Games Janeites play

It hasn’t quite been Ten Days that Rocked the Jane Austen World, but this past week or so has brought us several memorable Janeite teapot...

Deborah Yaffe

May 21, 2014

Aux armes, citoyens!

We Janeites like to think of ourselves as a community whose shared enthusiasm transcends the artificiality of mere lines on a map,...