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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

Janeite trick-or-treating

In her novels and letters, Jane Austen does not mention Halloween, whose modern-day form – costumes, trick-or-treating, ghouls, pumpkins...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 31, 2016

Devoted readers of Among the Janeites may recall that, even as a child, I was not much of a Halloween person. Dressing up: not my thing....

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 29, 2015

We Janeites hail our beloved author as a witty social critic, a source of romantic escapism, a harbinger of a more civilized age, a...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 1, 2015

We Janeites like to think of ourselves as a community whose shared enthusiasm transcends the artificiality of mere lines on a map,...

Deborah Yaffe

May 22, 2014

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

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 23, 2013