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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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Janeite house-share
Have you been racking your brain to think of a fun vacation house-share for two dozen of your closest Janeite friends? Well, rack no more...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 3, 2016
Color to win
When I was ten years old, or thereabouts, I won a coloring contest sponsored by the local bus company. Since my artistic ability was –...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 23, 2016
Austen's living room
Looking for a good place to curl up with your battered copy of Emma, celebrating its bicentennial in two weeks? If you happen to be in...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 3, 2015
A very (expensive) Jane Austen Christmas
If you are a Janeite with no 2016 Christmas plans – and a whole wad of cash left over from this year’s gift shopping – the New York Times...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 23, 2015
Palatial fixer-upper sells at last
It’s been a year since the imagination of real-estate-coveting Janeites was captured by the news that Wentworth Woodhouse, a humongously...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 12, 2015
Walking Austen country
Jane Austen was a country girl – she spent most of her life in a couple of small villages in Hampshire, England – and even today the...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 5, 2015
Janeite retirement
One of the many pleasures of researching Among the Janeites was the chance it gave me to meet fellow Austen fans from across the country...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 20, 2015
The improvement of the estate
If you liked the inspiring story of how Sandy Lerner turned Edward Austen Knight’s decaying family pile into the beautiful and important...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 12, 2015
Jane Austen slept here
Our first president traveled widely in his efforts to shore up the foundations of our fledgling republic. “Driven by duty to present...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 21, 2015
Cassandra's grief
Cassandra Austen gets a bad rap from Janeites. As I’ve noted before, many of us just can’t forgive her for burning who-knows-how-many of...
Deborah Yaffe
May 3, 2015
Cliffside paradise
So it turns out there’s a cliffside hotel with amazing views of the Pacific where all the rooms are named after famous writers and, since...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 29, 2015
Nice or naff? You decide
“Fierce divisions have broken out among the Guardian books team as to whether this video, bringing a statue of Jane Austen to life, is...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 17, 2014
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