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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 all around
Jane Austen turns up in the most unexpected places, doesn’t she? Here’s where she’s been in the past week: --Jane Austen and true crime:...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 31, 2022
Pride and penitentiary
The white supremacist sympathizer assigned to read Pride and Prejudice will now have enough time to get through all six of Jane Austen’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 24, 2022
Pop quiz
Back in my school days, we eager young grade-grubbers used to trade advice on which teachers marked harshly and which were more...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 10, 2022
Austen women
Jane Austen isn’t just for girls, of course, but the Austenesque tidbits that the internet has tossed my way lately happen to focus on...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 20, 2021
Crunch time
Kids! Always leaving their homework to the last minute! Last summer, as blog readers will recall, a British judge sentenced a young man...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2021
Crossed wires
“Lindsay declared her love for Jane Austen on the set of ‘Winter House,’ ” my daily Google alert for Our Jane informed me the other week....
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 15, 2021
While you were sleeping. . .
It’s the start of a new month, and thus the perfect time to update some old stories: * All dressed up: Over the summer, New York...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 1, 2021
Boo!
It’s the scary season – ghosts, witches, creaking doors in haunted houses. For Janeites, however, the Internet’s frightening capacity to...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28, 2021
Brass
Jane Austen, it seems, is the go-to novelist for anyone who wants to write about money. In 1937, the poet W.H. Auden famously remarked...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 11, 2021
Timeless heroine
“Mouni Roy Dresses Like A Jane Austen Heroine In Her Latest Photoshoot And Totally Nails It,” proclaimed a recent headline on the website...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 23, 2021
Required reading
Last week, a British judge imposed an unusual sentence on a young man convicted of possessing terrorism-related materials. "Have you read...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 6, 2021
Deck the halls
It was Christmas in July for those of us who spend our days looking for pop-culture recognition of Jane Austen’s genius: * July 14:...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 12, 2021
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