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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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Meet me at the corner of Austen and Brontë
It’s true that I have no plans to move to Iowa. It’s true that I don’t really like sprawling five-bedroom houses in subdivisions so new...
Deborah Yaffe
May 11, 2014
Wearing Jane
Maybe it’s just me, but when I clicked this link, which came to me via my “Jane Austen” Google alert, I laughed out loud: See, I read the...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 16, 2014
Win big by reading Jane Austen
She’s a brilliant prose stylist, a peerless satirist, the creator of indelible characters. Yeah, yeah, but it turns out that the real...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 9, 2014
How to write like Austen
Jane Austen’s writing routine: a model for us all? Apparently so, according to a new-ish book mentioned in a recent Harvard Business...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 2, 2014
Goofy Austen News; or, Any Link to Jane Will Do
There are weeks when all you hear about Jane Austen is staid, decorous stuff: the prospect of a new film adaptation, or the exhibit of a...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 27, 2014
Jane Austen's 2013
For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 30, 2013
Catfight on the moors?
Why do so many people who write about Jane Austen feel compelled to referee an imaginary smackdown between her and the Brontë sisters?...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 1, 2013
Sex in Jane Austen
The British novelist Howard Jacobson has done us all a service by pointing out the sex in Jane Austen. Not the obvious but offstage sex:...
Deborah Yaffe
May 26, 2013
Jane Austen, by the book
Last Sunday, the British novelist Hilary Mantel was featured in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly "By the Book" feature, in which...
Deborah Yaffe
May 22, 2013
Jane Austen -- not a game theorist
Michael Suk-Young Chwe’s Jane Austen, Game Theorist has made quite a splash since its publication last week: a story on the front page of...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 28, 2013
A little bit of pasteboard
Not sure about these new Jane Austen stamps (designed by Angela Barrett) recently issued by Britain's Royal Mail, to commemorate the two...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 7, 2013
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