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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

On this day in 1798. . .

Ninety-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Mary Lloyd was a friend of Jane and Cassandra Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 2, 2024

If you read the UK media, you might be forgiven for thinking that no story about British real estate is complete without a link to Jane...

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Jan 8, 2024

Eighty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Novelists are a ruthless bunch. They find grist for their...

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Oct 16, 2023

Once again, it’s time for every Janeite’s favorite sport: eying up palatial real estate with tangential Jane Austen associations. Today’s...

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Nov 18, 2021

Forty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. When Jane Austen sat down to write a letter to her sister,...

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Oct 24, 2019

Seventy years ago this week, the premier Janeite pilgrimage site welcomed its first pilgrims. On July 23, 1949, Chawton cottage, the...

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Jul 22, 2019

Have you been racking your brain to think of a fun vacation house-share for two dozen of your closest Janeite friends? Well, rack no more...

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Apr 4, 2016