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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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To Janeites – indeed, to anyone who’s read semi-widely and who isn’t V.S. Naipaul – it’s obvious that women are capable of writing great...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 13, 2022
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
Revising the syllabus
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
Pride and penitentiary
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
Pop quiz
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
Saved!
Genuinely good news – a commodity that’s been in short supply this past year – came our way earlier this month, with the announcement...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 30, 2021
Crunch time
Kids! Always leaving their homework to the last minute! Last summer, as blog readers will recall, a British judge sentenced a young man...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2021
Required reading
Last week, a British judge imposed an unusual sentence on a young man convicted of possessing terrorism-related materials. "Have you read...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 6, 2021
Hear this
If you want a dulcet-toned Brit to read aloud to you from the works of Jane Austen, your options are many. The audiobook giant Audible...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 4, 2021
Recovering a literary Holy Grail
It’s been more than three years since a trio of passionate Janeites formed the Godmersham Lost Sheep Society (GLOSS), an organization...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 7, 2021
Mother of controversy
Some years ago – six? Ten? – I stumbled across a mention of an intriguing campaign to raise money for a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft, to...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 19, 2020
Replenishing the larder
At this point, roughly three weeks into All-American Shelter at Home, you -- the average Janeite -- have probably watched, or re-watched,...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 8, 2020
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