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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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Hint, hint
Just in case – ahem! – you were wondering what to get me for my birthday, a particularly scrumptious set of Jane Austen editions is...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 14, 2015
Guess who?
The good people who, despite all my entreaties to the Gods of Cinema, are bringing us the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 11, 2015
Jane Austen in the age of the hookup
Lucy Worsley is a member of the uniquely British species known as the TV Historian – not a historian who writes about television, but...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 7, 2015
Fun! Inspirational! But not Jane Austen!
Those of you who’ve been reading this blog for awhile may stop here. You’ve heard what I’m going to say: They’re misquoting Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 4, 2015
Quenching that insatiable desire
Sometimes a headline seems to speak directly to you, as if written not by an anonymous stranger but by a friend with intimate knowledge...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 30, 2015
On this day in 1814. . .
Eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. For those of us fascinated by Jane Austen’s novels, it’s a source...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 27, 2015
Electing Lydia
It’s not every day that Kitty and Lydia Bennet are implicitly compared to Bobby Jindal and Donald Trump. But it’s that kind of week on...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 23, 2015
Janeite retirement
One of the many pleasures of researching Among the Janeites was the chance it gave me to meet fellow Austen fans from across the country...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 20, 2015
Among the Janeites at the Eudora Welty Library
My next book talk will take place this coming Sunday, September 20, from 2-4 pm in Jackson, MS: I’ll be speaking to the Mississippi...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 16, 2015
Teaching teens to love Austen
Last week brought the news that yet another contemporary author has decided to mine Jane Austen’s works for inspiration: “Chicken House...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 13, 2015
Books to flee by
In 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, Soviet spies burrowed deep into the British Foreign Office, realized they were on the brink of...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 9, 2015
That romantic lead-poisoning look
For those of you waiting anxiously for the release of reality TV star Lauren Conrad’s latest fashion line – debuting! Wednesday! at New...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 6, 2015
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