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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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Winnie, Lizzy, and Camilla
Elizabeth Bennet – vivacious, witty, charming and good-hearted – has many fans. Add to the list Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, wife of...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2015
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My suspicious mind. . .
Here we have a self-consciously literate Craigslist personal ad from a Portland man who says he’s a Jane Austen fan.* He’s looking for...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 26, 2015
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Unexpected Janeite
Janeites come in all sorts of unexpected guises, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised to learn – via a Terry Gross radio interview...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 19, 2015
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Meet the Janeites
Back in my girlhood (yes, Virginia, I was young once too), you were lucky if you accidentally stumbled across one or two other people who...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 12, 2015
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Janeite on YouTube
Cyberspace is teeming with smart and interesting Janeites I've never heard of, and this past weekend I stumbled across yet another: Ron...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 5, 2015
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See under "J"
The New York Times Magazine’s year-end obituary issue drew my attention to a death I’d missed last spring: that of Adrianne Wadewitz, a...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 29, 2014
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James on Jane
As I’ve mentioned before, I – like many Janeites – was no fan of P.D. James’ murder-mystery Pride and Prejudice sequel, Death Comes to...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 8, 2014
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Jane Austen over tea
I recently ran across the web site of a group calling itself the Jane Austen Tea Society. According to the site, “It is a truth...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 24, 2014
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Janeite fun with technology
No money for a tour of Jane Austen sites in England? Worry not: a diligent Janeite named LuciaM has painstakingly created a Google Earth...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 3, 2014
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Trekkies in bonnets
Are Janeites just Trekkies in bonnets? We Austen fans are used to the Trekkie comparison, which often serves as a shorthand way to...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 30, 2014
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Oh, those dear little women
Alexander McCall Smith, I’m told, is a delightful writer. But you wouldn’t know it from his rambling, unfocused and kind of dumb piece...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 27, 2014
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What I heard at the AGM
I’m back home after four whirlwind days at the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meeting – held this year in Montreal...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 13, 2014
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