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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

Austen quizzing

Jane Austen is no stranger to the quiz-show world, on either side of the pond: As blog readers will recall, just four years ago, she got...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 4, 2018

Jane Austen passes Go

Last month, it seemed that Jane Austen had truly arrived in the world economy when the new £10 note bearing her portrait went into...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 22, 2017

Another option for Janeite game night

Perhaps it is because game-playing is so common in Jane Austen’s novels – think Lydia Bennet’s lottery tickets, Mary Crawford’s spirited...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 6, 2017

Austen laurels

D-Day for Janeites – aka July 18, the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s untimely death – is approaching quickly, and a number of UK outlets...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 5, 2017

Jane Austen, trumped

For an American, a British spouse confers certain advantages. Your tea will always be expertly brewed. Your friends will find the accent...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 26, 2017

The Austen Catch-Up Project: Marrying Mr. Darcy

In Jane Austen’s novels, the quest for a suitable marriage partner is serious business. By law, Regency women surrendered most of their...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 28, 2016

Color to win

When I was ten years old, or thereabouts, I won a coloring contest sponsored by the local bus company. Since my artistic ability was –...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 23, 2016

If your Mr. Right is Mr. Darcy

Was Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy always seen as the quintessential romantic icon, even in that misty prehistoric time known as B.C. (Before...

Deborah Yaffe

May 24, 2015

It's in the cards

Just in time for Christmas, I’ve become aware of the existence of not one but two new-ish (less than two years old) Jane Austen-related...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 22, 2014

Win big by reading Jane Austen

She’s a brilliant prose stylist, a peerless satirist, the creator of indelible characters. Yeah, yeah, but it turns out that the real...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 9, 2014

Janeite game-playing

Jane Austen games are breaking out all over. The creators of Ever, Jane, a new massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG)...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 9, 2013

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