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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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On this day in 1817. . .
Fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters The letter-like document that Jane Austen addressed to her sister,...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 26, 2015
Say a little prayer for me
It’s commonplace to speak about Jane Austen fandom in terms usually associated with religion. Austen-love is a “cult” filled with those...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 22, 2015
Take a letter, Ms. Austen
I write letters. Admittedly, I wrote more of them before the advent of email, but I still try to send my oldest friends handwritten...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 19, 2015
The Austen Fiasco?
Halfway to the finish line, the Austen Project is looking increasingly like the Austen Fiasco. The Austen Project, as you may recall, is...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 15, 2015
Austen at your fingertips
The stream of heartfelt yet weird homages to Jane Austen really never stops. Today’s entry: ten replications of the silhouette of Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 12, 2015
Go west, young Janeite
This Sunday, I’ll be speaking and signing copies of Among the Janeites in Seattle, courtesy of the Puget Sound chapter of the Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 8, 2015
Calling all Austen nerds
Given the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2015
A date with the zombies
The movie of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has a release date! And it is. . . (drum roll, please). . . February 19, 2016! So stop me...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 1, 2015
Cliffside paradise
So it turns out there’s a cliffside hotel with amazing views of the Pacific where all the rooms are named after famous writers and, since...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 29, 2015
On this day in 1817. . .
Third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. The letter Jane Austen wrote to her eleven-year-old niece, Caroline...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 25, 2015
Pink covers, blue covers
Last week, I ran across this interesting piece about gender bias in reading – or, more precisely, in the choice of whose books we read....
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 22, 2015
Love letters and babies in bonnets
Okay, I admit I’m mostly linking this because I get a kick out of the baby-in-a-bonnet photo. But it’s also true that this coming...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 18, 2015
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