Misquotation 3/3

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

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

It’s time again for one of my favorite pastimes: Making Fun of the Internet – Jane Austen Edition. Today’s episode includes two entries: ...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 7, 2016

As a newspaper reporter many years ago, I heard New Jersey’s then-commissioner of education give a speech featuring a self-deprecating...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 7, 2015

See, this is why it’s a problem -- as I’ve written so many, many times before (for instance: here, here and here) – that the Internet is...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 16, 2015

Those of you who’ve been reading this blog for awhile may stop here. You’ve heard what I’m going to say: They’re misquoting Jane Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 4, 2015

Another year, another round of Let’s Misquote Jane Austen. Back in October, the last time I was overcome by irritation at the general...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 2, 2015

I really should stop. Don’t torture myself, right? Just surrender my Jane Austen Critical Faculties license, turn in my Janeite Purist...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 19, 2014

Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 10, 2014

I suppose I should just stop banging my head against the same old brick wall. But really: if you’re going to go to the trouble of...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 24, 2014

“Jane Austen said it best,” a blogger for the Christian Post asserts in a recent piece on Biblical approaches to friendship. " ‘There is...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 13, 2014

Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 19, 2013