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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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Floor-to-ceiling Austen
The curators of Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton are hard at work freshening the place up for this year’s commemoration of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2017
Context is everything
Once or twice in the past, I have mentioned my aversion to lists of Jane Austen quotes – or mugs with Jane Austen quotes, or, indeed, any...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 27, 2017
And another one bites the dust
I clearly don’t have much of a future as a soothsayer. Back in December, I predicted that it could take many, many months for lucky Brits...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 23, 2017
Distinguishing marks
Back in my college days, when I was a pedantically obsessive copy editor on the student newspaper, a friend claimed to have overheard me...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 20, 2017
More pictures of Fanny
Earlier this month, Janeites were delighted when the Folio Society publishers and the House of Illustration, a London gallery devoted to...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 16, 2017
Dweeby Darcy
Edward IV, who reigned as king of England for most of the period from 1461-1483, was described by contemporaries as an unusually handsome...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 13, 2017
On this day in 1807. . .
Twentieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen came from a large and close-knit tribe of siblings...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 9, 2017
Money money money
It’s been an entire month since I last mentioned Jane Austen and British currency in the same breath, so clearly it’s time for an update...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 6, 2017
Pictures of Fanny
Those of us who first encountered Jane Austen on the page of a book without illustrations -- rather than on a movie screen -- probably...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 2, 2017
Ready for our closeup
An intriguing tidbit popped up recently on my Jane Austen Google alert: Alejandra Carles-Tolra, a young Spanish photographer based in...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 30, 2017
Rabbie and Jane
Yesterday marked the 258th birthday of a giant of British literature. (No, not her! Her birthday was 242 years ago, and in December!) I...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 26, 2017
Bronzing Austen
Nobody knows what Jane Austen looked like. Nobody will ever know what Jane Austen looked like. So, naturally, we’ll soon have a new image...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 23, 2017
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