Deborah YaffeJul 27, 2023Summer funChawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire, England, once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight, has had a busy...
Deborah YaffeApr 17, 2023Jeopardy and peril at Chawton HouseTwenty years ago this summer, American tech mogul and Janeite Sandy Lerner finished up her multimillion-dollar restoration of an...
Deborah YaffeOct 14, 2021Listening in on Chawton HouseLast summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...
Deborah YaffeOct 14, 2018From PhD to CEOThe transformation of Chawton House from purely academic destination into full-service Janeite tourist draw continues: The stately home...
Deborah YaffeDec 4, 2017Good news (at last!) for Chawton HouseThe past year’s drama at Chawton House Library has sometimes seemed more appropriate to one of the Gothic romances Jane Austen satirized...
Deborah YaffeSep 17, 2017Chawton KremlinologyThe ongoing saga of Chawton House Library’s beloved Shire horses – likely casualties of the Austen site’s cost-cutting campaign – is...
Deborah YaffeJul 19, 2017The Austen ice bucket challengeThere are many things I would be willing to do to secure the future of Chawton House Library, one of the Austen world’s great treasures....
Deborah YaffeNov 7, 2016Lerner leaves Chawton HouseUnless Queen Elizabeth II is a secret Austen fan, the richest living Janeite is probably Sandy Lerner, the co-founder of Cisco Systems...
