November - 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

Regency reality

For some Janeites, fandom entails an intense engagement with the material details of Austen’s world. These Janeites are the people who...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 28, 2022

As luck would have it, my family’s Thanksgiving guest list this year will once again consist of none but our four selves. And just as we...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 24, 2022

Six years ago, when I heard about a young Syrian woman reading Jane Austen while enduring the bombing of Aleppo, I saw the story as a...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 21, 2022

As regular blog readers know, among my favorite pastimes is mocking the internet for its habit of attributing quotations from screen...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 17, 2022

The years 1995-96 yielded a bumper crop of filmed versions of Jane Austen’s novels, designed for both big and small screens. The...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 14, 2022

Last year, Alicia Silverstone got on TikTok and promptly started turning out Clueless-themed videos featuring her ten-year-old son. Now...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 10, 2022

Today, it’s called the slush pile: the tottering heap of unsolicited manuscripts that clog the mailboxes—these days, the email boxes—of...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 7, 2022

Eighty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Sometimes you read a famous author’s correspondence and...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 3, 2022