Work 13/13

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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Giving thanks for Jane Austen

As a concept, gratitude is important to Jane Austen: Elizabeth feels it for Darcy when she learns what he's done for Lydia; Sir Thomas...

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Judging books by their covers

Not too long ago – OK, it was last month, but I only just noticed – New York magazine ran a feature on the runaway popularity of...

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Hey Jane

Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular novel. It’s the one that gets assigned in high school, makes the top-novels-of-all-time...

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Guest post at The Book Rat

I've got a guest post today at The Book Rat, on why Mansfield Park gets so little love, even among Janeites. The blog is also giving away...

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Germs and Jane

“Jane Austen was right,” declared a headline last week in the UK’s Daily Mail, in words calculated to warm the heart of every Janeite....

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Beautiful Lizzy

Why is everyone so convinced that Elizabeth Bennet isn’t beautiful? This past weekend, Deborah Moggach, the screenwriter for the 2005...

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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:...

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Bittersweet Sanditon

The creators of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries will soon launch a mini-series based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel Sanditon, so in...