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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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Clearing the backlog
It’s been a grand total of four weeks since I last reported on Jane Austen-related misinformation/foolishness on the internet. And...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 24
Irritating pet-peeve annoyance
The next paragraph of this blog post contains a phrase--taken from a recent piece on StudyFinds, a website that summarizes the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 19, 2023
Podlife
The universe of Jane Austen podcasts is hardly underpopulated. You can choose from titles like AustenTherapy, Bonnets at Dawn, First...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 13, 2023
A decade on
Ten years ago this weekend, I published my first blog post—the first of many, as it turned out. (Today’s entry is #1,049, if you’re...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 2, 2023
Under the floorboards
When I was a little girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse. I liked setting up tiny roomscapes filled with detailed, perfectly manageable...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 28, 2022
Talking about "talking"
In the social world of Jane Austen’s Regency, young people navigated a complex set of unwritten rules for managing friendship and...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 22, 2021
Travels in translation
Jane Austen’s novels are filled with tourism: think Catherine Morland in Bath, Elizabeth Bennet in Derbyshire, the Dashwood sisters in...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 17, 2016
Treasures of the Brits
And here’s an interesting footnote to the tale of Jane Austen’s ring – bought at auction four years ago by American singer Kelly...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 29, 2016
What's in a name?
I love names – perhaps because I’m terrible at faces, perhaps just because I’m a verbal person in all respects. Whatever the reason, I...
Deborah Yaffe
May 11, 2015
One man's fandom
A while ago, my husband wrote the word “Basement” in green marker on the November 4 square of our family calendar. He didn’t do it to...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 6, 2014
Jane Austen and babies: not so perfect together
Jane Austen, I think it’s fair to say, was not one to coo sentimentally over babies. She did not wax eloquent about the radiance of...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 11, 2014
Janeites and Disney fans
Jane Austen and Disney: it’s a nightmarish pairing. An adorably anthropomorphic Pug steals fabric from Mrs. Norris’ poor box to trim...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 10, 2014
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