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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 1813. . .
Twenty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen wrote for money. Not only for money, of course...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 2, 2017
On this day in 1808. . .
Twenty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The letter Jane Austen began writing to her sister,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 14, 2017
On this day in 1817. . .
Twenty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. By May 1817, Jane Austen was gravely ill, just surfacing...
Deborah Yaffe
May 21, 2017
On this day in 1817. . .
Twenty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Devotees of the Victorian novel are familiar with the Will...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2017
On this day in 1817. . .
Twenty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen: realist or romantic? Cynic or softie? You’ll...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 12, 2017
On this day in 1807. . .
Twentieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen came from a large and close-knit tribe of siblings...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 9, 2017
On this day in 1796. . .
Nineteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. If Cassandra Austen had known how much speculation would be...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 9, 2017
On this day in 1798. . .
Eighteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Reading has its hierarchies. We prefer acquaintances to catch...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 19, 2016
On this day in 1800. . .
Seventeenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In 1884, when Jane Austen’s great-nephew Lord Brabourne...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 21, 2016
On this day in 1798. . .
Sixteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Two hundred and eighteen years ago today, on October 27, 1798,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 26, 2016
On this day in 1816. . .
Fifteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 7, 2016
A Dear Jane letter
Every Janeite has probably fantasized about meeting the woman herself. What would we say? What would we ask her? Would we babble...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 17, 2016
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