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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
**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
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
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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