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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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On this day in 1799. . .
Thirty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The story of Jane Austen fandom has been told more than...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 10, 2018
Inspiring Janeite PR
As a fan of not only Jane Austen but also the Jane Austen Society of North America (member since 1981), I was pleased to see JASNA pop up...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 6, 2018
Proust questionnaire for a Janeite
Last month, as blog readers will recall, a non-profit executive and Janeite with the extraordinarily appropriate name of Janet Austin was...
Deborah Yaffe
May 27, 2018
Janet knows Jane
It’s not every day that the first question a newspaper asks of a newly appointed government official is “Are your parents big Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 29, 2018
Janeites, Janeites everywhere
These days, it’s de rigueur in some circles to think of Jane Austen as a closet lefty: subversive social satirist, anti-slavery...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 22, 2018
Jane Austen: Leading girls astray since 1811?
Back when I was writing Among the Janeites, I happened across two Facebook groups whose titles encapsulated a common set of attitudes...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 11, 2018
A pen dipped in vitriol
New this week: The latest entry in the annals of Jane Austen Bizarro World (or, to be honest, Jane Austen-Adjacent Bizarro World). Three...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 28, 2018
Unveiling the Jane Austen quilts
The delightful Jane Austen Quilt project culminated earlier this month with the unveiling at Jane Austen’s House Museum of two beautiful...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 25, 2018
No JAFF for this famous Janeite
For generations of teenagers, including me, reading the young-adult novels of S.E. Hinton – classics like The Outsiders and That Was...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 21, 2018
The fifth-grade Jane Austen
Is Jane Austen hard to read? “Absolutely not!” I hear you Janeites saying. “She’s a master of precise and lucid prose! Her dialogue...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 8, 2018
Patching together Austen's life
Among the commemorations planned during last year’s bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, one of the most delightful was the Chawton quilt...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 8, 2018
Christmas comes early for Janeites
People who do not write fiction often have trouble believing that novelists just, you know, make stuff up. These readers seize upon every...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 21, 2017
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