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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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Too darn hot
The dog days of summer are approaching, and perhaps that’s why the amount of Stupid Jane Austen Stuff coming my way seems to have ramped...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 1, 2019
On this day in 1808. . .
Forty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters It’s hardly news to dedicated Janeites that the Jane Austen we...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 20, 2019
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On this day in 1817. . .
Forty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In May of 1817, the gravely ill Jane Austen left her home...
Deborah Yaffe
May 27, 2019
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Busting Austen myths
Most Janeites don’t need to hear, yet again, that Jane Austen was not a kindly maiden aunt whose sweet, insubstantial little romance...
Deborah Yaffe
May 13, 2019
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On this day in 1805. . .
Forty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. "It is a period, indeed!” Captain Wentworth exclaims to Anne...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 11, 2019
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On this day in 1817. . .
Forty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Those of us who feel strongly about books sometimes subject...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 25, 2019
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Getting it wrong
Jane Austen, it seems safe to say, is one of the most famous writers who ever lived, especially in English-speaking countries. Yet out...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 7, 2019
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On this day in 1817. . .
Forty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only hindsight makes anything remarkable out of the letter...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 24, 2019
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Family album
The Janeite world is a-twitter (and a-Twitter) this week over the serendipitous discovery of a Victorian photo album filled with pictures...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 17, 2019
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Ghosts
The voracious interest in all things Jane Austen has inspired plenty of scholarship about her ancestors and her collateral descendants –...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 27, 2018
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Live like Jane
Jane Austen was a novelist, not an accountant, therapist, scientist, or priest. But you wouldn’t know it from the array of books...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 6, 2018
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On this day in 1813. . .
Thirty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen never lived alone. From her earliest days,...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 24, 2018
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