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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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Clueless again?
The 1995 film Clueless is many things—a beloved teen comedy, the locus classicus for indispensable expressions like “As if!” and one of...
Deborah Yaffe
1 day ago
Anniversary splurge
Just last month, I took issue with the travel guru Rick Steves’ questionable claim that “ Bath is the mecca for Austen devotees.” (That...
Deborah Yaffe
5 days ago
Jane Austen to the rescue?
“Jane Austen's grave may save a troubled Winchester Cathedral,” the website of Religion News Service proclaimed earlier this year. And...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 30
Everyone's a fan
Discovering a fellow Janeite can be a bittersweet experience. Sometimes it’s the delightful reassurance that you’re not alone in your...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26
On this day in 1816. . .
One hundred and second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The letter Jane Austen wrote to her 23-year-old...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 23
A festival reborn
Back in 2008, the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Louisville chapter launched a Jane Austen Festival, held over a July weekend at...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 19
Second banana no more
Ella Bruccoleri is a hard-working young British actress whose roles so far have been distinctly second banana. I’ve seen her as a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 16
Ball of the year?
Hard as we Americans try, there are some things we just can’t do as well as the British. Last month, as blog readers will recall ,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 12
P&P, Vanity Fair edition
When Pride and Prejudice was published in early 1813, Jane Austen had a few regrets. “It wants shade,” she wrote to her sister,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 9
A lively celebration
Fifty years ago, the ardent Janeite collector Alberta Burke--whose husband, Henry, would go on to co-found the Jane Austen Society of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 5
Where Rick reigns
Over the past couple of years, my husband and I have become fans of the travel maven Rick Steves , whose lucid and well-organized...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 2
On the rise
This week, British Janeites were treated to a new TV docudrama/literary-historical-biographical analysis/250th birthday tribute called...
Deborah Yaffe
May 29
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