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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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