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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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The Jane Austen diet plan
We Janeites hail our beloved author as a witty social critic, a source of romantic escapism, a harbinger of a more civilized age, a...
Deborah Yaffe
May 31, 2015
Take a letter, Ms. Austen
I write letters. Admittedly, I wrote more of them before the advent of email, but I still try to send my oldest friends handwritten...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 19, 2015
Calling all Austen nerds
Given the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2015
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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