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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's simple old songs
Like her characters Marianne Dashwood and Jane Fairfax, Jane Austen was, we are told, a committed amateur pianist. “In her youth she had...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26, 2016
On this day in 1814. . .
Fourteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Jane Austen’s circle of real friends seems to have been...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 22, 2016
Kitten pictures. Need I say more?
I’m not a big fan of cute animal pictures on the internet, but hey – when cute animal pictures with a Jane Austen connection show up on...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 19, 2016
Crafting time
Today’s edition of Jane Austen Craft Projects I Wish I Had Time For features a charming cross-stitch kit based on one of C.E. Brock’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 15, 2016
More Austen networking
About fourteen months ago, as loyal readers may remember, I blogged about an online effort to launch something called the Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 12, 2016
My old Kentucky scone
It is one of my life’s small, poignant sorrows that I have not yet made it to the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, which by...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 8, 2016
Austen in bedlam
A few months ago, I was lucky enough to see a very enjoyable and ingenious stage production of Sense and Sensibility, performed in New...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 5, 2016
Who you callin' unpublished?
So I’ve finally seen Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship, the much-heralded film adaptation of Lady Susan. (I enjoyed it, if perhaps not...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 1, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Roy and Lesley Adkins
The 2007 movie of Karen Joy Fowler’s novel The Jane Austen Book Club opens with a montage designed to evoke the noise, stress and...
Deborah Yaffe
May 29, 2016
On this day in 1801. . .
Thirteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Finding biographical resonances in Jane Austen’s writing is a...
Deborah Yaffe
May 25, 2016
Lining up for tickets
Since its initial release two weeks ago, Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Austen’s Lady Susan, has been...
Deborah Yaffe
May 22, 2016
Touring Pemberley
So here’s what I’d be doing right this minute if I were in England: Taking today’s “Fitzwilliam Tour” of Wentworth Woodhouse. You will...
Deborah Yaffe
May 18, 2016
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