Dress-up for grownups
As blog readers will recall, the Library of Congress hosted its first-ever Literary Costume Ball earlier this month. Since then, I’ve...
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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
- 4 days ago
Austen's not-so-secret London
The biographical record suggests that Jane Austen was essentially a country girl, much happier during the many years she spent in rural...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 18
On this day in 1796. . .
Eighty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The British have a well-documented penchant for discussing...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 14
Updating the syllabus
In the bad old days of pre-1980s academia, you could major in English literature and never be assigned a novel by Jane Austen—or so I’ve...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 7
Icing on the cake
It’s turning into a self-promoting kind of week. After taking a bow on Monday for my small contribution to the ginormous task of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 4
Victory lap
Less than two weeks ago, apropos of my latest effort to stamp out the online plague of fake Jane Austen quotes, I wrote, “I like to...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 31
Calling all bookish cosplayers
Quick! Waste no time! You have until today at noon (US Eastern) to enter the lottery for free tickets to the Library of Congress’...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 28
Austen the agreeable
Ask Janeites about their favorite author’s political and social views, and you’ll often hear arguments that boil down to this: Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 24
Sourcing and citation
Earlier this month, a man from the Maryland suburbs sent a letter to the Washington Post. “When I was reading Colbert I. King’s July 29...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 21
Coveted rarities
As regular blog readers know, I have a not-so-secret hankering for Jane Austen first editions, along with nothing like enough money to...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 17
Testing, testing
In spring 2022, the right-wing British press ginned up a storm of outrage over the claim that a Scottish university had dropped Jane...
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