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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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On this day in 1813. . .
Ninety-seventh in an occasional series  of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters.  What tribute does a friend owe to a published author?...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 7, 2024
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Winning ribbons
In chapter 27 of Emma , sweet but dim Harriet Smith dithers over her shopping, while Emma Woodhouse tries “with all the force of her own...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 4, 2024
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Three plus one
Pity the poor Austen blogger. The minute you write , “ No fewer than three Austenian adaptations may be making their way to our TV...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 31, 2024
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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