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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

In Jane Austen's handwriting

Physical copies of Jane Austen’s letters are rare commodities. Of the 160 letters whose text we have, seven are known only from copies...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 25

Power to the (book) people

Running a brick-and-mortar bookstore in the age of Amazon sounds to me like one of the most stressful jobs imaginable. Yet it was...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 4

Janeite fun for all ages

Although Jane Austen didn’t write for children, many Janeites discover Austen during their tween or teen years, around the age when...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 28

Souvenirs for the bookish

Halfway through this year of Austen 250 celebrations, you may be considering what sort of merch would make an appropriate souvenir of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 17

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