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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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Janeite trick-or-treating
In her novels and letters, Jane Austen does not mention Halloween, whose modern-day form – costumes, trick-or-treating, ghouls, pumpkins...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 30, 2016
On this day in 1798. . .
Sixteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Two hundred and eighteen years ago today, on October 27, 1798,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 26, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jocelyn Harris
When Jane Austen described her work as “the little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 23, 2016
JASNA, Emma, and D.C.
By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way to Washington, D.C., to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s thirty-eighth...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 19, 2016
Curricular matters
Once again, Jane Austen has been roped into something that she might better be left out of. Judging from my daily Austen Google alert,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 16, 2016
Jane Austen, college recruiter
Over the past few years, as I’ve sent one child off to college and begun preparing another to follow, I’ve gotten to know a little bit...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 12, 2016
Austen tunes
We’ve had Jane Austen musicals, Jane Austen operas, and databases of the music that Jane Austen herself played. And now comes word that a...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 9, 2016
JA and QE
Last year, I blogged about a ship named for Jane Austen on which well-heeled passengers could cruise along Europe’s scenic rivers. And...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 5, 2016
Twisted Austen?
By now, the juxtaposition of sex with the supposedly decorous Jane Austen has lost much of its incongruity: We’ve all run across...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 2, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Sarah Emsley
Perhaps because Jane Austen’s writing feels so fresh and modern, it’s tempting to imagine her as a contemporary who shares our...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 28, 2016
Augmented Janeite reality
Tumblr is a social media platform that I simply do not understand, at least not yet. Luckily, I have a teenage daughter. And she sends me...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 25, 2016
Janeite demigod turns 80
Screenwriter Andrew Davies, who turned 80 this past Tuesday, is a Janeite demigod, the man who brought us not only the beloved 1995...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 21, 2016
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