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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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Highlighting the highlighted
More fun with data! A bright young reporter decided to mine the little-known trove of info that is Amazon’s list of the passages most...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 11, 2014
Comma-counting across the centuries
I’m a punctuation geek, I must admit. A fellow reporter on my college newspaper once claimed to have heard me declare, with a passion...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 4, 2014
JA makes the cut
A flurry of excitement in the British press over the release of new curricular guidelines for the UK’s English literature exams for high...
Deborah Yaffe
May 28, 2014
Pop the champagne corks for Mansfield Park's 200th
Tomorrow is Mansfield Park’s two hundredth birthday, and what’s a birthday without a party? Our host is the writer and blogger Sarah...
Deborah Yaffe
May 7, 2014
Pet Jane Austen Peeve #37: Quoting Out of Context
“Jane Austen said it best,” a blogger for the Christian Post asserts in a recent piece on Biblical approaches to friendship. " ‘There is...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 13, 2014
The Watsons in Winter
The Watsons, the novel Jane Austen started and then abandoned on the cusp of her thirties, is a wintry book: not, perhaps, in its...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 6, 2014
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 28, 2013
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 7, 2013
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 18, 2013
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 18, 2013
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....
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 9, 2013
Beautiful Lizzy
Why is everyone so convinced that Elizabeth Bennet isn’t beautiful? This past weekend, Deborah Moggach, the screenwriter for the 2005...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 2, 2013
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