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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

Souvenirs for the bookish

Halfway through this year of Austen 250 celebrations, you may be considering what sort of merch would make an appropriate souvenir of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 17

Marital gift-giving

As a card-carrying Wife, I feel I must call my Husband’s attention to a recent feature in Town & Country magazine, “ 40 of the Best...

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Sep 16, 2024

Miss Austen disposes

Another day, another Jane Austen event I wish I could attend. Tomorrow, Gill Hornby, whose new novel Miss Austen explores the...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 10, 2020

Eighty years on

The year that began yesterday will not bring us any important Jane Austen anniversaries: The bicentenaries of her death and of the...

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Jan 2, 2020

Companions

Thirteen years ago, when PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre aired a new adaptation of Jane Eyre, the network offered viewers a chance to buy...

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Aug 15, 2019

Live like Jane

Jane Austen was a novelist, not an accountant, therapist, scientist, or priest. But you wouldn’t know it from the array of books...

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Dec 6, 2018

Never too much Jane

Sometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...

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Nov 1, 2018

Herding sheep

Somewhere out there, lost lambs are baa-ing to return to the fold, and a group of scholarly Bo Peeps is ready to shepherd them home. The...

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Oct 26, 2017

Haute couture juvenilia

Collecting copies of Jane Austen’s books is a popular Janeite pastime. The wealthy seek out rare and valuable first editions. The...

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Sep 4, 2017

Austen laurels

D-Day for Janeites – aka July 18, the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s untimely death – is approaching quickly, and a number of UK outlets...

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Jul 6, 2017

More pictures of Fanny

Earlier this month, Janeites were delighted when the Folio Society publishers and the House of Illustration, a London gallery devoted to...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 16, 2017

A whirlwind new year for Janeites

Happy new year, Janeites! For us fans of Jane Austen, 2017 is a big year, the biggest since – well, since 2013, when we celebrated the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 2, 2017