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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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Time to exhibit
As we approach the last third of this Austen 250 year, the torrent of anniversary-related events shows no sign of abating—especially in...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 18
Jane on Zoom
Those of us who live within striking distance of New York City have another five weeks in which to catch the Morgan Library & Museum’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 7
A festival reborn
Back in 2008, the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Louisville chapter launched a Jane Austen Festival, held over a July weekend at...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 19
Ball of the year?
Hard as we Americans try, there are some things we just can’t do as well as the British. Last month, as blog readers will recall ,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 12
A lively celebration
Fifty years ago, the ardent Janeite collector Alberta Burke--whose husband, Henry, would go on to co-found the Jane Austen Society of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 5
Tempest in a teapot
Jane Austen is delightful. Tea parties are lovely. Raising money for college scholarships is admirable. So I’m ninety percent happy...
Deborah Yaffe
May 22
Dancing as if it's 2005
Twenty years, to quote Captain Wentworth, is “a period, indeed”—more than enough time “to change every pore of one’s skin, & every...
Deborah Yaffe
May 19
Immersion
While Hampshire, England, is Ground Zero for Austen 250 celebrations, we Americans are doing our best to participate—and this week, the...
Deborah Yaffe
May 8
Regency playdate
Exactly 250 years ago, England saw the birth of a great artist whose innovations forever changed our culture. I speak, of course, of...
Deborah Yaffe
May 1
The other talented Austen sister
Cassandra Austen’s family considered her a skilled artist, but for most Janeites, her claim to artistic fame rests, uneasily, on a single...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 28
Austen footsteps, Southampton edition
The city of Southampton makes no one’s list of England's top Jane Austen sites. Although she briefly attended school there as a child and...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 20
Dancing through the library
Universities across the country are confronting declining enrollments in humanities fields such as history, literature, and philosophy....
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 6
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