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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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The women we love (or love to hate)
Another day, another artificially constructed list of literary favorites on which Jane Austen ranks high. Today’s entry is the “Top 15 of...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 30, 2015
Austen after After
My philosophy of youthful reading can be summed up in three words: It’s all good. Comic books, novelizations of TV shows, futuristic...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 26, 2015
On this day in 1805. . .
Seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. One of the pleasures of reading Jane Austen’s letters to her...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 23, 2015
That sinking feeling
“Jane Austen fans rejoice,” commands the Hollywood business website The Tracking Board. “Voltage Pictures is moving forward with a new...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2015
Austen tops another list
It’s always pleasant when Jane Austen makes another greatest-novels-of-all-time list, so we Janeites can’t help but cheer that, as the...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 16, 2015
The improvement of the estate
If you liked the inspiring story of how Sandy Lerner turned Edward Austen Knight’s decaying family pile into the beautiful and important...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 12, 2015
Miss Price goes to Washington
Jane Austen has been a semi-regular presence in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly “By the Book” feature, in which noted authors...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 9, 2015
Jane Austen, now with tabs
Given the ubiquity of Austen-inspired items, from tattoos to mouse pads, it’s no surprise that she’s conquered the world of paper dolls,...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 5, 2015
DFW/JA
As far as I know, David Foster Wallace had nothing to say about Jane Austen. (Admittedly, I don’t know for sure, since I’ve never read a...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 2, 2015
Malice and malware
The big Jane Austen news this week: the evil, soulless folks who get their jollies – and their profits – by infecting your computer with...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 2015
When my ship comes in
As Janeites know, Austen was no world traveler: for all of her forty-one years, she lived in the southern English counties of Hampshire...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 26, 2015
Gone fishin'
I interrupt this week’s blogging to take a short vacation. Luckily, Jane Austen – in the person of Elizabeth Bennet -- had something to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 22, 2015
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