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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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Signing for Jane
Heaven knows there is plenty of weird Jane Austen merchandise out there. (Though I’m not sure anyone has yet topped the Austen book cover...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 12, 2017
Weaving Austen-fabric
Regular blog readers will recall that I find the very concept of “Jane Austen-inspired” smells, flavors, and visuals – as in Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 22, 2017
Floor-to-ceiling Austen
The curators of Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton are hard at work freshening the place up for this year’s commemoration of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2017
Context is everything
Once or twice in the past, I have mentioned my aversion to lists of Jane Austen quotes – or mugs with Jane Austen quotes, or, indeed, any...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 27, 2017
More pictures of Fanny
Earlier this month, Janeites were delighted when the Folio Society publishers and the House of Illustration, a London gallery devoted to...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 16, 2017
Light a candle for Jane
The latest Austenian clickbait on the young women’s website Bustle provides further evidence, were any needed, that Jane Austen is a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 16, 2017
Miss Bates, vindicated
Miss Bates has an optimistic outlook on life (“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do”) but not...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 12, 2016
The bottom line
The famous supposedly-Jane-Austen silhouette has turned up in some surprising places: at lunch . . . on finger nails. . . decorating...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 10, 2016
Piece by piece
Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of a Janeite teapot tempest – the purchase at auction, by American singer Kelly Clarkson, of a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2016
Not quite Antiques Roadshow
The story sounds irresistible: A treasured Jane Austen first edition, inscribed more than a century earlier to an unknown young woman,...
Deborah Yaffe
May 1, 2016
Jane-o'-lantern time
Devoted readers of Among the Janeites may recall that, even as a child, I was not much of a Halloween person. Dressing up: not my thing....
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28, 2015
Keepin' it classy
Don’t worry, honey, I’m not planning to get one. But I was still exceedingly diverted by this feature on “Classy Jane Austen Tattoo...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 25, 2015
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