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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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Essex Emma
Novelists haven’t been shy about updating Emma to various walks of contemporary life: We’ve had queer teen Emma , hetero teen Emma ,...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 29
In Jane Austen's handwriting
Physical copies of Jane Austen’s letters are rare commodities. Of the 160 letters whose text we have, seven are known only from copies...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 25
Then and now
The new Netflix adaptation of Pride and Prejudice seems to be coming along nicely: Press outlets in the UK have breathlessly reported...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 22
Rest in peace, Editrix
I can’t remember when I first read AustenBlog , Maggie Sullivan’s indispensable guide to early-twenty-first-century Jane Austen fandom. ...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 18
On this day in 1796. . .
One hundred and third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Every family has its private jokes:...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 15
Ready, set, read
Amid all the concerts, exhibits, tea parties, balls, walking tours, screen adaptations, and souvenir merch celebrating the 250 th ...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 11
Seasonable
Autumn is a lovely season in England—cue the Keats : “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”--and for Janeites, this fall offers some...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 8
Power to the (book) people
Running a brick-and-mortar bookstore in the age of Amazon sounds to me like one of the most stressful jobs imaginable. Yet it was...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 4
Who's counting?
It’s fair to say that Jane Austen was a prolific letter-writer. Deirdre Le Faye, who edited the standard edition of Austen’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 1
Coming of age
Say this for Jane Austen: She’s an inexhaustible source of roles for actresses who have aged out of the film industry’s ingenue...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 28
Second springs
The inexhaustible well of creative inspiration that is Pride and Prejudice looks to be bubbling over once again. Whether you prefer to...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 25
Voices
Inscriptions in old books have an eerie quality--those glimpses of forgotten lives and echoes of silenced voices. So it’s no wonder that...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 21
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