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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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Badge of honor
Calling all pedantic Janeite killjoys: It’s time for you to proudly proclaim your (our) identity. At long last, the T-shirt is available...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 31
Bookshelf for sale
At the back of Rebecca Romney’s new book Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 27
Pemberley on the wall
When Elizabeth Bennet visits Pemberley, she admires the furniture, the paintings, and the view from the windows. Apparently, however, she...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 20
Catering to the kids
Do Kids These Days need to be coaxed into picking up a book? What with their new-fangled BookTok and #bookstagram, they seem to be doing...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 10
Proud as a peacock
I’m so fond of the famous “Peacock edition" of Pride and Prejudice that its glorious art nouveau cover--featuring a graceful vase, some...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 26, 2024
The oracle of Austen
Long ago, as readers of Among the Janeites may recall, I had a curious encounter with a Jane Austen tarot card. It appeared to advise me...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 19, 2024
Marital gift-giving
As a card-carrying Wife, I feel I must call my Husband’s attention to a recent feature in Town & Country magazine, “ 40 of the Best...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 16, 2024
Beyond the quill
Jane Austen wrote with a quill pen. Most of us would agree that she managed pretty well with that particular technology. So just imagine...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 8, 2024
Merch
Last month, I had occasion to call myself “a pedantic Janeite killjoy.” (And not for the first time, as I was reminded in the comments...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 8, 2024
In for the quill
Once upon a time, the hottest thing in video gaming was the Nintendo Entertainment System. Back then, the pixelated graphics necessitated...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 22, 2024
If the shoe fits. . .
The annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America is coming up next week in Denver, and with it that age-old...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 26, 2023
Coveted rarities
As regular blog readers know, I have a not-so-secret hankering for Jane Austen first editions, along with nothing like enough money to...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 21, 2023
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