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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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Pass the potatoes
For last year’s Thanksgiving Day blog, I amused myself by searching out Austen references to turkey. (As it happens, there are two – one...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 26, 2015
A very (expensive) Jane Austen Christmas
If you are a Janeite with no 2016 Christmas plans – and a whole wad of cash left over from this year’s gift shopping – the New York Times...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 23, 2015
Voting Austen onto the island
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister – in other words, the head of Scotland’s semi-autonomous government – is a famously patriotic...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 19, 2015
Mis-Remembrance
See, this is why it’s a problem -- as I’ve written so many, many times before (for instance: here, here and here) – that the Internet is...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 16, 2015
Palatial fixer-upper sells at last
It’s been a year since the imagination of real-estate-coveting Janeites was captured by the news that Wentworth Woodhouse, a humongously...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 12, 2015
How dare you?
It’s not exactly news that we Janeites feel very, very strongly about Jane Austen’s characters. Like, more strongly than we do about most...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 9, 2015
Walking Austen country
Jane Austen was a country girl – she spent most of her life in a couple of small villages in Hampshire, England – and even today the...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 5, 2015
Famous non-friend likes Austen
It’s always nice to find Austen fans in semi-unexpected places. Today’s entry comes from this recent interview with Joshua Malina, a star...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 2, 2015
Jane-o'-lantern time
Devoted readers of Among the Janeites may recall that, even as a child, I was not much of a Halloween person. Dressing up: not my thing....
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28, 2015
Keepin' it classy
Don’t worry, honey, I’m not planning to get one. But I was still exceedingly diverted by this feature on “Classy Jane Austen Tattoo...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 25, 2015
James on Jane
The popular, movie-inflected view of Jane Austen is so thoroughly imbued with stereotypical, romanticized girliness – fair maidens,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 21, 2015
Intro to Austen
If Jane Austen’s genius must be reduced to a listicle, you could probably do worse than this bouncy seven-minute animation from the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 18, 2015
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