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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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Austen sleuthing
Although “Jane Austen Detectives” sounds like the title of a beach book I’d want to read, it’s actually the name of a sixteen-month-old...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 7, 2016
Sharing scholarship
And here's the second addition this week to the category of Nifty Web Sites I Only Just Heard About: The 18th-Century Common, “a public...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 3, 2016
Six degrees of Austen
For years, movie buffs have entertained themselves with a game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Start with Movie Actor #1, name a movie...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 31, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jane Juska
Let us stipulate that Mrs. Bennet draws the short straw. Her clever, ironic husband treats her with thinly disguised disrespect. Her...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 27, 2016
What the--?
By now, it’s hardly a shock that other people see things in Jane Austen that I just can’t find there. Heck, I wrote a whole book about...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 24, 2016
The oast with the most
Jane Austen and real estate: That’s a familiar subject. Whether it’s grand mansions said to be the model for Pemberley, or modest homes...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 20, 2016
A Dear Jane letter
Every Janeite has probably fantasized about meeting the woman herself. What would we say? What would we ask her? Would we babble...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 17, 2016
Austen on the Hill
I’m sure I speak for many American Janeites when I boldly assert that Congress would be a better place if more of its members read Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 13, 2016
Piece by piece
Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of a Janeite teapot tempest – the purchase at auction, by American singer Kelly Clarkson, of a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2016
Worldwide Janeite partying
As summer weeks go, the week ahead is looking pretty good for Jane Austen fans: * Tomorrow and Saturday, the Janeites of Port Alberni, in...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 6, 2016
That Hamilton woman
Jane Austen was only seven when the American War of Independence ended, and as far as I know she is not on record either pro or con –...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 3, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jenny Uglow
The classics are timeless, we are told. Their freshness has no sell-by date; their concerns seem as urgent in our times as in the times...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 29, 2016
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