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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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Miss Bates, vindicated
Miss Bates has an optimistic outlook on life (“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do”) but not...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 12, 2016
Jane's fundraising
As every homeowner knows, the passage of time can wreak havoc on even the best-constructed building. Paint peels, window frames warp,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 8, 2016
Oompa-Loompa
Someday very soon, a lucky Brit will turn a crisp new £5 note to the light, just so, and something unexpected will appear: A tiny...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 5, 2016
Mis-inspiration
Admit it: It’s always satisfying to see Janeites slapping down silly, unprovable, probably inaccurate speculation about Jane Austen....
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 1, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Marrying Mr. Darcy
In Jane Austen’s novels, the quest for a suitable marriage partner is serious business. By law, Regency women surrendered most of their...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 28, 2016
Giving thanks
In her fiction, Jane Austen was acutely aware that the duty of gratitude can sometimes be weaponized: think of Sir Thomas Bertram...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 24, 2016
On this day in 1800. . .
Seventeenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In 1884, when Jane Austen’s great-nephew Lord Brabourne...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 21, 2016
Travels in translation
Jane Austen’s novels are filled with tourism: think Catherine Morland in Bath, Elizabeth Bennet in Derbyshire, the Dashwood sisters in...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 17, 2016
It's raining Austen
In Basingstoke, there will be benches. And in Winchester, there will be disappearing ink. The bicentenary year of Jane Austen’s death...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 14, 2016
The bottom line
The famous supposedly-Jane-Austen silhouette has turned up in some surprising places: at lunch . . . on finger nails. . . decorating...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 10, 2016
Lerner leaves Chawton House
Unless Queen Elizabeth II is a secret Austen fan, the richest living Janeite is probably Sandy Lerner, the co-founder of Cisco Systems...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 7, 2016
Cooking with Jane
Here’s another item to add to the list of contemporary cultural phenomena that have now been given a Jane Austen twist: TV reality...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 2, 2016
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