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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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Teen Jane
Jane Austen’s juvenilia, the clever and hilarious short pieces she wrote between the ages of roughly eleven and eighteen, are far less...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 5, 2015
A Jane Austen Christmas
Jane Austen is famously careful about the chronology in her stories – Ellen Moody has mined the text to produce working calendars for all...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 25, 2014
Gobble, gobble
As I contemplated my holiday cooking earlier this week, I found myself wondering whether Jane Austen ever mentions The Bird – our...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 27, 2014
Austen first impressions
Margaret C. Sullivan*, known for the past decade as the editrix of AustenBlog, picked her first Jane Austen paperback off a drugstore’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 20, 2014
Darcy the one-tenth-of-one-percenter
A fascinating column in a recent edition of the Financial Times’ FT Magazine uses the income data in Pride and Prejudice to illustrate a...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 10, 2014
Editing for Austen geeks
When you’re an Austen geek, you’re an Austen geek. One of my favorite breakout sessions from the just-concluded Jane Austen Society of...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 15, 2014
In it for the money
Not being a math type, I have never spent much time trying to calculate the contemporary equivalents of the sums mentioned in Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 3, 2014
Austen tops another list
The UK’s Independent newspaper just asked one hundred people working in the arts – writers, publishers, actors, directors – to pick their...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 20, 2014
My share in the conversation
The writer and blogger Sarah Emsley is two months into “An Invitation to Mansfield Park,” her year-long series of weekly guest posts...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 9, 2014
Strange business, indeed
Judging from the near-absence of any mention of our blessed land in the works of Jane Austen, it appears that our beloved author didn’t...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 2, 2014
Jane Austen, imagined friend
Yesterday’s New York Times Book Review ran an article by poet and critic Adam Kirsch responding to the question, “When we read fiction,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 29, 2014
Late arrival at the Janeite party
From time to time, it’s useful to recall that not everyone knows as much about Jane Austen as we Janeites do. Last week’s salutary...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 22, 2014
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