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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

A decade on

Ten years ago this weekend, I published my first blog post—the first of many, as it turned out. (Today’s entry is #1,049, if you’re...

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Feb 2, 2023

Last summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...

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Oct 14, 2021

Back in 2011, when the research for my book Among the Janeites took me on the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual tour of...

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May 17, 2021

Six summers ago, a faux trailer for a non-existent film titled Jane Austen’s Fight Club went viral, with its hilarious juxtaposition of...

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Sep 5, 2016

For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...

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Dec 30, 2013

I spent this past week participating in a most enjoyable Group Read of Among the Janeites at the Republic of Pemberley (it's now...

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Sep 23, 2013

Keith Sharon, an old friend and colleague from our days at the Jersey City newspaper, mentions Among the Janeites in an Orange County...

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Sep 10, 2013

January 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...

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Feb 4, 2013