January - 2022

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

Jane all around

Jane Austen turns up in the most unexpected places, doesn’t she? Here’s where she’s been in the past week: --Jane Austen and true crime:...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 31, 2022

They could not be defeated by a host of implacable foes: mediocre reviews, low viewership numbers, bottom-line-driven corporate...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 27, 2022

The white supremacist sympathizer assigned to read Pride and Prejudice will now have enough time to get through all six of Jane Austen’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 24, 2022

The venerable British Broadcasting Corporation turns 100 this year, a century after the launch of its first daily radio service. To mark...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 20, 2022

It’s a hopeless task -- the effort to convince casual fans that Jane Austen isn’t really the patron saint of weddings. No matter how...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 17, 2022

For the most part, I love my fellow Janeites. By and large, we are a smart, thoughtful bunch who, whatever our political, temperamental,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 13, 2022

Back in my school days, we eager young grade-grubbers used to trade advice on which teachers marked harshly and which were more...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 10, 2022

When it comes to climate change, is Jane Austen part of the problem? In a grossly oversimplified nutshell, that’s the question that will...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 6, 2022

Seventy-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Moving out of one house and into another is a stressful,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 3, 2022