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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 1814. . .
Twenty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only six of Jane Austen’s letters to her oldest niece,...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 20, 2017
On this day in 1815. . .
Twenty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s books contain few young children, and those...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 29, 2017
On this day in 1813. . .
Twenty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Janeites often wonder how Jane Austen would feel about her...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 24, 2017
The bicentenary lives on
The Jane Austen bicentenary is already a month in the rearview mirror, but cute little tie-in pieces are still turning up online –...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 20, 2017
Six books
Tomorrow marks the anniversary that we all – or, at least, all those of us who are Janeites – have been waiting for since 2017 dawned:...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 16, 2017
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
Sometimes folly is folly
“To put it bluntly, he was screwing her.” It’s not every day that my Jane Austen Google alert yields a line like that. Especially when...
Deborah Yaffe
May 14, 2017
Stealing Home?
In Austen studies, originality is hard to come by. The primary sources – novels, letters, family reminiscences, unfinished work – are...
Deborah Yaffe
May 10, 2017
Refighting the winning battle
Barely is the metaphorical ink dry on my recent blog post lamenting all the great UK Jane Austen bicentenary events that we American...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 26, 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
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