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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

A stroll in paradise

Last year, I was lucky enough to spend a day at the Huntington, a place to see rare books, great artwork, and spectacular botanical...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 22, 2024

Jane-talk, sponsored

Back in the summer of 2022, TikTok kicked off its inaugural book club with a group reading of Persuasion. Allegedly, the TikTok Book Club...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 4, 2024

The sounds of Jane Austen Christmas

Emma Woodhouse’s Christmas holiday is not a good one, as readers of Emma will recall: On Christmas Eve, she fends off Mr. Elton’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 21, 2023

Adaptable

In the two centuries since Jane Austen’s death, her novels have proved almost infinitely adaptable, transmuted into stage plays, radio...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 6, 2023

It's that time again

Signs of autumn: Falling leaves. Halloween pumpkins. And the Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, which...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 30, 2023

In the mind's eye

Jane Austen’s physical descriptions of her characters are famously sparse. But if you ask me, Anne Elliot, Emma Woodhouse, and Elizabeth...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 23, 2023

Treasure chest

Chawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, is one of the treasures of the Janeite...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 2, 2023

Dress-up for grownups

As blog readers will recall, the Library of Congress hosted its first-ever Literary Costume Ball earlier this month. Since then, I’ve...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 25, 2023

Calling all bookish cosplayers

Quick! Waste no time! You have until today at noon (US Eastern) to enter the lottery for free tickets to the Library of Congress’...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 31, 2023

Summer fun

Chawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire, England, once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight, has had a busy...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 27, 2023

Semi-native daughter

Jane Austen’s stays in the southern English port of Southampton were short-ish and not especially happy. As a seven-year-old, she...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 20, 2023

Using up the leftovers

Before leaving on vacation, I always try to clean out my refrigerator—no point in coming home to sour milk and moldy vegetables. Since I...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 19, 2023