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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

Deborah Yaffe

By the seaside

A few weeks ago, as ITV began airing a much-hyped miniseries based on Sanditon, the seaside novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her...

Deborah Yaffe

Seaside publicity

For the past week or so, barely a day has passed without a story in the British press about the forthcoming eight-part television...