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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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Rabbie and Jane
Yesterday marked the 258th birthday of a giant of British literature. (No, not her! Her birthday was 242 years ago, and in December!) I...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 26, 2017
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Two hundred candles for Charlotte
Two hundred years ago today, one of the world’s greatest novelists was born in a small village in rural England. I refer, of course, to...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 20, 2016
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All in the family
We writers are a shameless bunch. We don’t really care why our books are being bought and read (Mandatory class assignment? Gift from...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 3, 2015
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Pink covers, blue covers
Last week, I ran across this interesting piece about gender bias in reading – or, more precisely, in the choice of whose books we read....
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 22, 2015
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Fifty-One Shades of Jane
OK, so the movie was terrible. I had my hopes; they were dashed. In compensation, however, I recently ran across something extremely...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 23, 2015
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Fifty Shades of Jane
By now, you may have heard that the filmed adaptation of a pop-culture work with a legion of breathless fans is coming to a multiplex...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 12, 2015
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Austen tops another list
The UK’s Independent newspaper just asked one hundred people working in the arts – writers, publishers, actors, directors – to pick their...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 20, 2014
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The scandalous playwright of Mansfield
An informative and interesting recent post on the British Library’s European Studies blog talked about August von Kotzebue, a late...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 6, 2014
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The Adventure of the Fading Copyright
The explosion of Jane Austen fan fiction over the past fifteen to twenty years was possible because of one salient fact: Austen’s books,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 18, 2014
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**headdesk**
Some days you get that hopeless feeling – that sense that the mountain of ignorance is so high and so wide that you, chipping away with...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 30, 2014
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Married to Mr. Darcy?
On-line quizzes claiming to align your personality with that of a literary character are hardly a new phenomenon. (For example, click...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 5, 2013
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Jane Austen, Jane Eyre. Whatever.
I love it when things like this* turn up in my daily Google alert for "Jane Austen": "Apparently every generation needs its own version...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 16, 2013
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