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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’s views on the international tragedies of her time are mostly unknown, except when they are brutally unsentimental. “How...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 9, 2025
Here he comes again
Twenty years ago, Matthew Macfadyen’s Mr. Darcy strolled out of the morning mist to a swelling strings-and-piano accompaniment and sent...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 6, 2025
On this day in 1808. . .
One hundred and fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen, it seems, took a rather jaundiced...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 2, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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, 2025
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