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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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More Austen therapy
Lately, Audible, the audiobook company owned by Amazon, seems to be having a bit of a Jane Austen moment. Earlier this month, as you’ll...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 17, 2017
Jane Austen lives!
When I was researching Among the Janeites, a former president of the Jane Austen Society of North America told me a charming story about...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 24, 2017
All the famous ladies
More than eighty years ago, a famous art historian commissioned two famous painters (one of them related to an even more famous writer)...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2017
Celebrity opinions
A little over two centuries ago, Jane Austen famously recorded her acquaintances’ opinions, pro and con, of Emma and Mansfield Park. So...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 29, 2017
Coins and benches
Last fall, you’ll recall, the English town of Basingstoke, located not far from Jane Austen’s final home at Chawton, decided to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26, 2017
Darcy in D.C.
“The new Darcy Hotel. . . is named for that taciturn hero of Jane Austen’s,” the Washington Times wrote earlier this month, at the outset...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 19, 2017
Debuting the Austen tenner
Jane Austen spent years living in straitened circumstances and earned only modest sums from her work, completely missing the giant...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 24, 2017
A fiver to Bath
The Roald Dahl-flavored tale of the four specially engraved, possibly valuable Jane Austen £5 notes continues to be The Story That Will...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 20, 2017
Jane meets Agatha
Just when you thought everyone had forgotten about the final Jane Austen Mystery Fiver – the still-missing British £5 note engraved with...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 30, 2017
And another one bites the dust
I clearly don’t have much of a future as a soothsayer. Back in December, I predicted that it could take many, many months for lucky Brits...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 23, 2017
Money money money
It’s been an entire month since I last mentioned Jane Austen and British currency in the same breath, so clearly it’s time for an update...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 6, 2017
Two down. . .
For the past month, I have attempted to cultivate an air of studied indifference to the story of the Priceless Fivers – the four British...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 5, 2017
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