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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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Diving deep
We Janeites like to say that Austen’s novels repay slow and careful perusal, and that every time we reread, we discover something new....
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 29, 2022
As seen by AI
Jane Austen famously supplies few physical descriptions of her characters – little beyond eye color, hair color, or relative height, and...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 1, 2022
Cue the wine and cheese
Last spring, as blog readers will recall, the London Times announced that Persuasion was the sixth most popular book on TikTok, the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 25, 2022
#AustenTok
If you’ve ever wondered whether the shortening of our collective attention span spells doom for the appreciation of Jane Austen's...
Deborah Yaffe
May 26, 2022
Jane all around
Jane Austen turns up in the most unexpected places, doesn’t she? Here’s where she’s been in the past week: --Jane Austen and true crime:...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 31, 2022
Getting warmer
When it comes to climate change, is Jane Austen part of the problem? In a grossly oversimplified nutshell, that’s the question that will...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 6, 2022
Many happy returns
Two hundred and forty-six years ago today, a daughter was born to Cassandra Leigh Austen and her husband, the Reverend George Austen. The...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 16, 2021
The opposite of speed reading
How long does it take to read a Jane Austen novel? At roughly three hundred pages apiece, her books are far shorter than the works of...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 27, 2021
Pricey, and priceless
It’s always nice to know that other people value Our Jane the way we do. Like, value her in dollars. Last week, as blog readers will...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 20, 2021
Austens with a pedigree
Owning first editions of Jane Austen’s novels – ideally, as I’ve noted before, of all Jane Austen’s novels – must be . . . pretty cool....
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 13, 2021
Raising Jane(ites)
Long ago, I danced at a JASNA ball with a twelve-year-old girl who, when I asked if she was a Janeite, told me that she had “been raised...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2021
On this day in 1814. . .
Sixty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. No author – not even Jane Austen -- is immune to the charm...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 14, 2021
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