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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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May Jane be with you
Fandom need not be monogamous. “It's apparent that there is a fannish personality,” the dance historian Allison Thompson told me when I...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 19, 2015
It was 20 years ago today (almost). . .
The year 1995 marked what I’ve called the Big Bang of contemporary Jane Austen fandom: Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s famous...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 15, 2015
Recapturing Austen's physicality
Janeites never tire of speculating about Austen’s appearance (see here and here for examples), despite – or perhaps because of – the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2015
On this day in 1816. . .
Sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters By all accounts, Jane Austen was an exceptional aunt, and she had a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 8, 2015
Good news about P&P&Z?
For months, the best news I could imagine hearing about the filmed adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 5, 2015
Online Austen and our Internet selves
It’s been more than two years since we fans bid a sad farewell to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the delightful web series that recast Pride...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 1, 2015
Dishing with BuJA
Look! Down there in the barrel! It’s a fish! Hand me my rifle! Yes, I know I should stop trashing Bustle’s near-daily stream of Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 28, 2015
Jane Austen (dis)content
Because she is famous and popular, Jane Austen has become a handy peg on which to hang just about anything, from advice for the dateless...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 24, 2015
Jane Austen slept here
Our first president traveled widely in his efforts to shore up the foundations of our fledgling republic. “Driven by duty to present...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 21, 2015
Celebrating Austen in Chawton
Jane Austen festivals are a dime a dozen by now, but Jane Austen Regency Week, the nine-day Austen festival that begins this Saturday,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 17, 2015
Books as mirrors
Ianthe Broome, the protagonist of Barbara Pym’s 1982 novel An Unsuitable Attachment, is a quiet, self-effacing woman. "She saw herself...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 14, 2015
Book talk in Franklin Lakes, NJ
If you plan to be in northern New Jersey this coming Sunday, please stop by the Franklin Lakes Public Library, where I’ll be speaking...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 10, 2015
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