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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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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
Not as happy as I deserve
Another year, another round of Let’s Misquote Jane Austen. Back in October, the last time I was overcome by irritation at the general...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 2, 2015
A promising cache
We Janeites are starved for material about Jane Austen’s sadly underdocumented life. We’re not unreasonably demanding! Doesn’t have to be...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 29, 2015
Austen animals
Over the weekend, my daily Google alert called my attention to artist Carmen Medlin’s rendition of Elinor Dashwood. . . as a mouse. I...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 26, 2015
On this day in 1805. . .
From time to time – or whenever the spate of weird, annoying or delightful Jane Austen news slows to a trickle – I’ll be offering an...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 22, 2015
Austen-era keyboarding
It’s probably impossible for us twenty-first-century folk, with our high-tech communications, advanced medical care and expansive notions...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 19, 2015
Unbelievable Austen truths
You may think that Jane Austen’s father was George Austen, a clergyman who headed a parish in rural England. But apparently you would be...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 15, 2015
Meet the Janeites
Back in my girlhood (yes, Virginia, I was young once too), you were lucky if you accidentally stumbled across one or two other people who...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 12, 2015
Undead at last
The time for silver-bullet and stake-through-the-heart jokes is officially over. The movie version of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies has not...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 8, 2015
Janeite on YouTube
Cyberspace is teeming with smart and interesting Janeites I've never heard of, and this past weekend I stumbled across yet another: Ron...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 5, 2015
A Jane Austen year
Jane Austen isn't just everywhere; she's all the time. After a busy year celebrating Mansfield Park's two hundredth anniversary,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 1, 2015
See under "J"
The New York Times Magazine’s year-end obituary issue drew my attention to a death I’d missed last spring: that of Adrianne Wadewitz, a...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 29, 2014
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