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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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Charlotte's bargain
In preparation for an upcoming discussion with my local chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America, I just reread Pride and...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 18, 2016
Wedding season
Just in case yesterday’s festivities didn’t give you enough of that Valentine’s Day spirit, Biltmore House, the palatial Asheville, N.C.,...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 15, 2016
Party like it's 1995
You remember 1995, right? The beginning of that halcyon eighteen-month stretch during which six Jane Austen film adaptations, ranging in...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 11, 2016
Meme-ing of Jane
Janeite creativity, while most obvious in the groaning shelves of fanfiction based on Austen’s novels, isn’t confined to any one medium:...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 8, 2016
On this day in 1813. . .
Tenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Today our world is awash in writers talking about their Intentions,...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 4, 2016
I is for intervention
The year is young, and already I’ve read a book that I consider a masterpiece worthy of my rare five-star Goodreads rating, which I...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 1, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Austentatious
In 1913, Sybil G. Brinton, the thirty-eight-year-old daughter of a wealthy carpet manufacturer from Worcestershire, England, published...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 28, 2016
Re-leash Mr. Darcy, please
The life of a Jane Austen video completist is not easy. Yes, it’s true that in the service of her mission – to see and, ideally, to own...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 25, 2016
Five, six -- who's counting?
So I’m reading along in my book of the moment -- Sisters in Law, Linda Hirshman’s interesting joint biography of Sandra Day O’Connor and...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 21, 2016
Popcorn time for Janeites
We Janeites fondly remember the years 1995-1997, when no fewer than six Austen adaptations hit the big screen in the US. The next few...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 18, 2016
It was (exactly) twenty years ago today. . .
People who were alive in November 1963 like to reminisce about the moment they learned that JFK had been shot. American Janeites who were...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 14, 2016
A big anniversary, one year early
This past weekend saw the kickoff of Jane Austen 200, the Hampshire, England, commemoration of the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death....
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 11, 2016
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