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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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How dare you?
It’s not exactly news that we Janeites feel very, very strongly about Jane Austen’s characters. Like, more strongly than we do about most...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 9, 2015
Intro to Austen
If Jane Austen’s genius must be reduced to a listicle, you could probably do worse than this bouncy seven-minute animation from the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 18, 2015
Hint, hint
Just in case – ahem! – you were wondering what to get me for my birthday, a particularly scrumptious set of Jane Austen editions is...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 14, 2015
Jane Austen in the age of the hookup
Lucy Worsley is a member of the uniquely British species known as the TV Historian – not a historian who writes about television, but...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 7, 2015
On this day in 1814. . .
Eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. For those of us fascinated by Jane Austen’s novels, it’s a source...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 27, 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
Austen tops another list
It’s always pleasant when Jane Austen makes another greatest-novels-of-all-time list, so we Janeites can’t help but cheer that, as the...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 16, 2015
Gone fishin'
I interrupt this week’s blogging to take a short vacation. Luckily, Jane Austen – in the person of Elizabeth Bennet -- had something to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 22, 2015
Austen, ambition, and Emsley
Jane Austen wrote daily, revised her work, recycled material from unused drafts, negotiated with publishers both directly and through an...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 7, 2015
Kissing in Jane Austen! Oh, my!
The mainstream media are convinced that Jane Austen’s work is a giant No Sex Zone. Nothing seems to shake this perception, no matter how...
Deborah Yaffe
May 27, 2015
Mr. Darcy revealed! (Or not)
Another day, another Mr. Darcy. Over the years, various ambitious authors and breathless journalists have informed us of their amazing...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 29, 2015
Mr. Darcy, slave trader?
“Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy made his fortune from slavery”! “Romantic hero profited from the misery of others”! So scream this week’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 11, 2015
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