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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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Wanted: Lettuce
The rabbit guy, it turns out, loved Jane Austen. Last week, the Guardian reported that the large and valuable library of the late Richard...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 27, 2017
Surveying the landscape
Nearly ten years ago, Jeanne Kiefer, an Austen fan with a background in journalism and corporate surveys, conducted what is, as far as I...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 6, 2017
The day is come
“At length the Day is come on which I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy,” the 20-year-old Jane Austen wrote to her sister in January...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 30, 2017
Celebrity opinions
A little over two centuries ago, Jane Austen famously recorded her acquaintances’ opinions, pro and con, of Emma and Mansfield Park. So...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 28, 2017
A goodbye
My father, James Yaffe, was the man who first introduced me to Jane Austen, buying the ten-year-old me a copy of Pride and Prejudice to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 11, 2017
Tending the Austen flame
Jane Austen’s books feature plenty of quietly competent women going about their work with minimal fuss – and, sometimes, minimal...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 2, 2017
Ready for our closeup
An intriguing tidbit popped up recently on my Jane Austen Google alert: Alejandra Carles-Tolra, a young Spanish photographer based in...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 30, 2017
Jane Austen, citizen of the world (Part II)
These days, the quintessentially English Jane Austen is, as I recently found occasion to note, a citizen of the world. And she seems to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 12, 2017
Lerner leaves Chawton House
Unless Queen Elizabeth II is a secret Austen fan, the richest living Janeite is probably Sandy Lerner, the co-founder of Cisco Systems...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 7, 2016
JASNA, Emma, and D.C.
By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way to Washington, D.C., to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s thirty-eighth...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 19, 2016
Janeite demigod turns 80
Screenwriter Andrew Davies, who turned 80 this past Tuesday, is a Janeite demigod, the man who brought us not only the beloved 1995...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 21, 2016
Pemberley survives, for now
Phew! After a near-death experience earlier this summer, the beloved Republic of Pemberley, the largest online Jane Austen fan site, has...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 31, 2016
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