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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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Greatest Hits, Part I

The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...

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Printer error

Few expressions of Janeite commitment are as permanent -- not to mention as painful -- as the Jane Austen tattoo. Therefore, I’d have...

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Getting it wrong, again

It’s time again for one of my favorite pastimes: Making Fun of the Internet – Jane Austen Edition. Today’s episode includes two entries: ...

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Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen books

Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...

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Beautiful Lizzy

Why is everyone so convinced that Elizabeth Bennet isn’t beautiful? This past weekend, Deborah Moggach, the screenwriter for the 2005...