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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 1796. . .
Thirty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The young Jane Austen was a voracious reader. We know this...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 23, 2018
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Fascinating Philadelphia
Jane Austen’s paternal aunt Philadelphia Austen Hancock (1730-92) is one of the most fascinating and understudied characters in the...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 9, 2018
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On this day in 1809. . .
Thirty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters As a novelist, Jane Austen was one of the greatest writers...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 26, 2018
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Jane the MOOC-er
Janeites tend to know quite a bit about Jane Austen: her books, her characters, her family, her life and times. But hey – there’s always...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 19, 2018
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Gateway to Austen's education
Few are the places with genuine Jane Austen connections. Austen’s birthplace, Steventon Rectory, was razed in the nineteenth century;...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 9, 2018
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Here we go again. . .
Last month, the Washington Post drew well-earned Janeite derision when it published an article exploring the astonishing news that Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 15, 2018
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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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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
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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 30, 2017
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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 25, 2017
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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 21, 2017
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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 17, 2017
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