North American Friends of Chawton House

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

Jul 27, 2023

Summer fun

Chawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire, England, once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight, has had a busy...

Deborah Yaffe

May 23, 2022

Many happy returns

The return of spring brings many pleasures. Flowers! Baby birds! And, of course, a new Jane Austen bobblehead! Back in 2020, the North...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 8, 2021

All the Janes

Janeites have a curious affinity for images of Our Author – even though, as I’ve noted before, we’ll never really know what she looked...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 9, 2020

Beautiful books, glamorous provenance

When valuable editions of Jane Austen’s novels come up for auction, the selling point is usually something about the books themselves:...

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

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...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 16, 2019

Friends

Although Jane Austen is a quintessentially British writer, her admirers in North America are legion. Indeed, the Jane Austen Society of...