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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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Jane Austen: not a grammar nerd
The UK recently instituted a grammar and punctuation test for students in Year Six – kids aged ten or eleven, roughly equivalent to...
Deborah Yaffe
May 15, 2016
Meme-ing of Jane
Janeite creativity, while most obvious in the groaning shelves of fanfiction based on Austen’s novels, isn’t confined to any one medium:...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 8, 2016
Five, six -- who's counting?
So I’m reading along in my book of the moment -- Sisters in Law, Linda Hirshman’s interesting joint biography of Sandra Day O’Connor and...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 21, 2016
Jane Austen's new career
It’s always inspiring to hear about people who have shifted gears later in life, learning new skills or realizing old dreams. But who...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 17, 2015
Jane-o'-lantern time
Devoted readers of Among the Janeites may recall that, even as a child, I was not much of a Halloween person. Dressing up: not my thing....
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28, 2015
Electing Lydia
It’s not every day that Kitty and Lydia Bennet are implicitly compared to Bobby Jindal and Donald Trump. But it’s that kind of week on...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 23, 2015
The women we love (or love to hate)
Another day, another artificially constructed list of literary favorites on which Jane Austen ranks high. Today’s entry is the “Top 15 of...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 30, 2015
Miss Price goes to Washington
Jane Austen has been a semi-regular presence in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly “By the Book” feature, in which noted authors...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 9, 2015
DFW/JA
As far as I know, David Foster Wallace had nothing to say about Jane Austen. (Admittedly, I don’t know for sure, since I’ve never read a...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 2, 2015
Malice and malware
The big Jane Austen news this week: the evil, soulless folks who get their jollies – and their profits – by infecting your computer with...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 2015
When my ship comes in
As Janeites know, Austen was no world traveler: for all of her forty-one years, she lived in the southern English counties of Hampshire...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 26, 2015
Dishing with BuJA
Look! Down there in the barrel! It’s a fish! Hand me my rifle! Yes, I know I should stop trashing Bustle’s near-daily stream of Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 28, 2015
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