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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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Puppies and prejudice
During World War I, historians tell us, Jane Austen’s novels were sometimes prescribed to traumatized British soldiers as a remedy for...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 9, 2017
Another option for Janeite game night
Perhaps it is because game-playing is so common in Jane Austen’s novels – think Lydia Bennet’s lottery tickets, Mary Crawford’s spirited...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 6, 2017
Complaining with Jane
I like to think that I am not a complainer, but I have to admit that I've done a lot of complaining on this blog. Some of my moans are...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 2, 2017
Camera-ready
Among the many, many activities taking place on the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death earlier this month was the unveiling of a new...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 30, 2017
Taxi!
I marked the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death last week in rather prosaic fashion: giving my house an all-too-infrequent thorough...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 26, 2017
Jane Austen lives!
When I was researching Among the Janeites, a former president of the Jane Austen Society of North America told me a charming story about...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 23, 2017
The Austen ice bucket challenge
There are many things I would be willing to do to secure the future of Chawton House Library, one of the Austen world’s great treasures....
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 19, 2017
Six books
Tomorrow marks the anniversary that we all – or, at least, all those of us who are Janeites – have been waiting for since 2017 dawned:...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 16, 2017
And also this. . .
The cherry on the sundae of the New York Times's unexpected interest in Among the Janeites: I'm on the New York Times Book Review's...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 13, 2017
Such art as hers
For visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum -- aka Chawton cottage -- where Austen spent the last eight years of her life and wrote or...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2017
Better late than never
Exciting news! A mere four years after publication, Among the Janeites has earned a review in the New York Times Book Review -- and by...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2017
All the famous ladies
More than eighty years ago, a famous art historian commissioned two famous painters (one of them related to an even more famous writer)...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 9, 2017
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