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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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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 29, 2014
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 26, 2014
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 12, 2014
Games Janeites play
It hasn’t quite been Ten Days that Rocked the Jane Austen World, but this past week or so has brought us several memorable Janeite teapot...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 24, 2014
Pemberley downsizes
I first discovered the Republic of Pemberley in 2005, when I went looking for background information on the entail, to supplement my...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 17, 2014
Bright college years
Like so many of us, I retain fond, rose-colored memories of my college years, when I had nothing to do but read great books and discuss...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 27, 2014
Awesome mom, possibly a Janeite
Most of us moms are muddling along, trying to make sure the kids eat something besides cold cereal, wear clothing that is reasonably...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 30, 2014
Miss Manners, Janeite
I suppose it is not exactly surprising that Miss Manners, the doyenne of How To Behave Correctly, is a Jane Austen reader. Still, as a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 25, 2014
Ready for Lizzy?
Janeites come in all political flavors, and I have no desire to split our cheerful community along partisan lines. But I hope we can all...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 15, 2014
Life among the ruins
Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald ran an engrossing interview this past weekend with Caroline Knight, a great-greatgreatgreatI'velostcoun...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 6, 2014
Timeless (and international) Austen
The tirelessly energetic, not-yet-two-year-old Jane Austen Book Club of Mumbai, India, has issued its first publication, a forty-page...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 16, 2014
Martin Amis: Saved by Jane Austen
I’m not a Martin Amis fan – The Rachel Papers so repulsed me that I’ve never cracked open another of his novels – but this interview...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 24, 2014
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