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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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Pemberley for sale
Ogling unattainable real estate is one of life’s great pleasures, and the mother of all real estate ogling is upon us now: Wentworth...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 13, 2014
Darcy the one-tenth-of-one-percenter
A fascinating column in a recent edition of the Financial Times’ FT Magazine uses the income data in Pride and Prejudice to illustrate a...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 10, 2014
One man's fandom
A while ago, my husband wrote the word “Basement” in green marker on the November 4 square of our family calendar. He didn’t do it to...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 6, 2014
Janeite fun with technology
No money for a tour of Jane Austen sites in England? Worry not: a diligent Janeite named LuciaM has painstakingly created a Google Earth...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 3, 2014
Trekkies in bonnets
Are Janeites just Trekkies in bonnets? We Austen fans are used to the Trekkie comparison, which often serves as a shorthand way to...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 29, 2014
Oh, those dear little women
Alexander McCall Smith, I’m told, is a delightful writer. But you wouldn’t know it from his rambling, unfocused and kind of dumb piece...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 26, 2014
Death comes to PBS
Just because I didn't much like Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James' 2011 murder-mystery sequel to Pride and Prejudice -- and, like so...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 22, 2014
Must stop can't stop
I really should stop. Don’t torture myself, right? Just surrender my Jane Austen Critical Faculties license, turn in my Janeite Purist...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 19, 2014
Editing for Austen geeks
When you’re an Austen geek, you’re an Austen geek. One of my favorite breakout sessions from the just-concluded Jane Austen Society of...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 15, 2014
What I heard at the AGM
I’m back home after four whirlwind days at the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meeting – held this year in Montreal...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 12, 2014
Montreal ahoy!
By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way to Montreal, for this year’s JASNA AGM. Although I’ve attended the last five AGMs (plus two...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 8, 2014
Austen in profile
The other day, I ran across this attractive Austen-themed craft idea, and it got me thinking about that silhouette. Now owned by the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 5, 2014
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