Work 5/16

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

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

Data storage, the Jane Austen way

Anyone whose college papers reside on now-unreadable floppy disks has probably wondered whether the human race is on the brink of an...

Deborah Yaffe

May 13, 2021

Interrogating an interrogation

Among my many Janeite pet peeves is the caricaturing of Austen fans as prudish ultraconservatives who stick their fingers in their ears...

Deborah Yaffe

May 6, 2021

Cross-channel connections

Jane Austen is usually thought of as a quintessentially English writer, what with all those landed estates, rural rectories, and mannerly...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 15, 2021

On this day in 1816. . .

Sixty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. From time to time, you will hear writers claim that they...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 1, 2021