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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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“Name your favorite Jane Austen character”--along with its offshoots (favorite hero, favorite bad boy, Which Jane Austen Heroine Are...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 3
Badge of honor
Calling all pedantic Janeite killjoys: It’s time for you to proudly proclaim your (our) identity. At long last, the T-shirt is available...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 31
Bookshelf for sale
At the back of Rebecca Romney’s new book Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 27
Reading Jane Austen in a vacuum
We Janeites never tire of pointing out all the qualities that make Austen special. We’re not wrong to do so--few writers are as good as...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 24
Austen footsteps, Southampton edition
The city of Southampton makes no one’s list of England's top Jane Austen sites. Although she briefly attended school there as a child and...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 20
Delayed snark
Some five years ago, my local chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America sponsored a discussion of Jane Austen at Home , the...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 17
Putting it on
Seldom do I appreciate zippers more than when I’ve just watched actors in Regency costume recreate the rituals of Jane Austen-era...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 13
May flowers
I began this post intending to convey some news eagerly awaited by Janeites who, like me, will see just about any movie that claims an...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 10
Dancing through the library
Universities across the country are confronting declining enrollments in humanities fields such as history, literature, and philosophy....
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 6
P&P on a budget
These days, it’s hard not to despair at the state of the world. But all is not lost: You can go online and find a guy lip-syncing his way...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 3
Matters of faith
What were the precise contours of Jane Austen’s religious faith? It’s an open question, given the slenderness of the evidence: some stray...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 27
Clearing the backlog
It’s been a grand total of four weeks since I last reported on Jane Austen-related misinformation/foolishness on the internet. And...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 24
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