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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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Jane Austen studied here
Jane Austen’s formal education was brief. Between the ages of seven and ten, she spent a little over two years attending two different...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28, 2024
Center of celebration
If next year’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth has an epicenter, it would surely be Jane Austen’s House , the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 24, 2024
New material
In case you feared running short of new Jane Austen-themed television, you can stop worrying: No fewer than three Austenian adaptations...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 21, 2024
Desk set
The celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth won’t officially kick off until next year, but that isn’t stopping the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 17, 2024
On foot
Jane Austen’s heroines do a lot of walking. Elizabeth Bennet strides purposefully from Longbourn to Netherfield, muddying her petticoat...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 14, 2024
Plain and ornamental
In his 1870 Memoir of Jane Austen , the author’s nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, reports that his famous aunt “was successful in...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 10, 2024
On this day in 1808. . .
Ninety-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Janeites do not always take Jane Austen at her word when it...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 7, 2024
Pilgrimage sites
In case you’re looking for another stop on your Jane Austen 250th Birthday Pilgrimage, a church where she once worshiped recently...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 3, 2024
Austen-linked teardown
Let us contemplate, for a moment, the kind of wealth that allows you to spend some £17 million ($22.8 million) on a palatial second home...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 30, 2024
Regency roses
I’ve never paid particular attention to flowers in Jane Austen’s novels, but apparently, someone else has been taking note: Earlier this...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 26, 2024
Creepy Lizzy
The newest Lizzy Bennet is a peculiar creature. True, her Regency-appropriate curls are lovely, and her dark eyes might pass for fine,...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 23, 2024
Love among the stacks
Is Jane Austen a romance novelist? Discuss. Or, if you’re not interested in revisiting your test-taking days, you could just travel to...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 19, 2024
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