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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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Star attraction
Jane Austen has had friends in high places for a very long time. In 1815, she famously accepted an offer (one of those offers you can’t...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 3, 2023
Walk the line
It’s not every day that Jane Austen gets name-checked in a newspaper article that also mentions Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and the...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 30, 2023
Down Under Austen
Over in the opposite hemisphere of the globe, it seems, they’re reading a lot of Jane Austen. Or so we might conclude from a couple of...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 27, 2023
Listening ears
For the past week or so, my Google alert has been crowded with versions of the same story: William and Kate—that’s the Prince and...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 23, 2023
Bait and switch?
“Jane Austen’s Birthplace Hits the Market”! “Your chance to live in the beloved author’s treasured family home”! When these headlines...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 20, 2023
Back to the beach
It’s been a long road for fans of Sanditon, the PBS series based, very loosely, on the novel that Jane Austen left unfinished at her...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 16, 2023
On this day in 1816. . .
Eighty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Janeites take the lives of Jane Austen’s characters very,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 13, 2023
The scientific method
Over the past three years, the indefatigable Jane Austen & Co. has convened four smart and provocative online lecture series about...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 9, 2023
Writing women
As a writer who is also a fan of period drama, I pay attention to the screenwriting credits on my favorite literary-minded TV...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 6, 2023
Phone books
Back in 2017, Jane Austen’s birthplace, the Hampshire village of Steventon, marked the bicentennial of her death by converting a disused...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2023
Matilda's reading list
Earlier this month, the Telegraph reported that, in reissuing books by the beloved-but-controversial children’s writer Roald Dahl, his...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 27, 2023
Heavenly visions
From time to time, my Google alert brings me word of Janeites I’ll never get to meet--fellow travelers who have passed on, leaving behind...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 23, 2023
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