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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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Smells Like Jane Spirit
To paraphrase Mr. Darcy, I have been a verbal being all my life – no affinity for music, hopeless at art, allergic to sports. For me,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 15, 2015
Mr. Darcy, slave trader?
“Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy made his fortune from slavery”! “Romantic hero profited from the misery of others”! So scream this week’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 11, 2015
German Janeites at play
Even if you don’t understand German – and I don’t – you may get a kick out of this YouTube video of a recent Austen-themed ball in the...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 8, 2015
Teen Jane
Jane Austen’s juvenilia, the clever and hilarious short pieces she wrote between the ages of roughly eleven and eighteen, are far less...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 5, 2015
Winnie, Lizzy, and Camilla
Elizabeth Bennet – vivacious, witty, charming and good-hearted – has many fans. Add to the list Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, wife of...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2015
My suspicious mind. . .
Here we have a self-consciously literate Craigslist personal ad from a Portland man who says he’s a Jane Austen fan.* He’s looking for...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 26, 2015
Fifty-One Shades of Jane
OK, so the movie was terrible. I had my hopes; they were dashed. In compensation, however, I recently ran across something extremely...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 23, 2015
Unexpected Janeite
Janeites come in all sorts of unexpected guises, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised to learn – via a Terry Gross radio interview...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 19, 2015
On this day in 1813. . .
Second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters: Two hundred and two years ago today, on February 16, 1813, Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 16, 2015
Fifty Shades of Jane
By now, you may have heard that the filmed adaptation of a pop-culture work with a legion of breathless fans is coming to a multiplex...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 12, 2015
Department of weird
We Janeites like to say that our favorite author is everywhere, but some days you just can’t believe where she turns up. An informative...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 9, 2015
Whit tries Jane
Best Jane Austen news of the week (at least potentially): Shooting is about to start on director Whit Stillman’s movie of Lady Susan,...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 5, 2015
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