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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 tidbits
Although it’s been a quiet few weeks on the Austen beat, at least compared with last year’s bicentenary frenzy, a few bits of Janeite...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 19, 2018
Onion Story Pleases Discerning Janeite Reader
Like all Internet-connected Janeites, I had a good giggle last week about the Onion story headlined, “Man Wishes Women In Crowded Bar...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 22, 2018
Minting money from the Austen tenner
The Jane Austen £10 note has been circulating for only four months, but already its most collectible iterations are fetching inflated...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 18, 2018
Austen quizzing
Jane Austen is no stranger to the quiz-show world, on either side of the pond: As blog readers will recall, just four years ago, she got...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 4, 2018
Shades of Pemberley
Jane Austen’s name and image have been appropriated for so many ancillary items – fridge magnets, tote bags, coffee mugs, temporary...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 28, 2017
Christmas comes early for Janeites
People who do not write fiction often have trouble believing that novelists just, you know, make stuff up. These readers seize upon every...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 21, 2017
Jane Austen, flyin' high
It’s not every day that you get to put Jane Austen and Freddie Mercury in the same sentence. But thanks to Norwegian Airlines, a budget...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 18, 2017
Golden fiver on the block
How time flies. It’s been exactly a year since a Scottish art gallery announced that Graham Short, an artist known for his teeny-tiny...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 7, 2017
Serial-number currency
When is $13 worth $9,410? When it’s embodied in a low-serial-number Jane Austen banknote, apparently. Last week, the Bank of England...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 8, 2017
Bye-bye to benches
As summer turns to autumn, the Jane Austen bicentenary year enters its final quarter, and winding-up is in the air. The latest evidence:...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 27, 2017
At last: The Austen tenner
It’s official: Starting today, Brits will be able to buy their tea, their scones -- even their books -- with a fistful of Jane Austen £10...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 13, 2017
Portable Pemberley
We all have our own idea of Pemberley, the quintessential Jane Austen estate. On film, it’s been played by gorgeous Lyme Park, in...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 10, 2017
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