April - 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

Under the floorboards

When I was a little girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse. I liked setting up tiny roomscapes filled with detailed, perfectly manageable...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 28, 2022

Since March 1, we’ve swooned (tastefully) over Sanditon, chuckled at (or ignored) The Courtship, held our breath for Bridgerton’s ve-e-ry...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 25, 2022

Seventy-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Leigh-Perrot, who was married to the older brother of...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 21, 2022

Last year, an Australian octogenarian named Ruth Wilson made headlines when she completed a doctoral degree on Jane Austen and the...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 18, 2022

For a long time, we have known that at least one* Janeite lives barely a heartbeat away from the British throne: Seven years ago,...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 14, 2022

Is Jane Austen an essential author? Must all English majors – all readers, even! – get to know her work before they can count themselves...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 11, 2022

Last year, as blog readers will recall, a New York fashion designer named Jennyvi Dizon celebrated her newly minted membership in the...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 7, 2022

In popular culture, Jane Austen is the avatar of buttoned-up romance – love stories featuring heroines concealed under long skirts and...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 4, 2022