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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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Eternal verities
Despite the strangeness of this year, some eternal verities remain. Snowflakes. Evergreens. Misquoting Jane Austen. A few highlights of...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 17, 2020
Sauce for the goose
Like many of us in the Age of COVID, I’ll be hosting an unusually small Thanksgiving party tonight – just the four members of my...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 26, 2020
On this day in 1815. . .
Fifty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Although Jane Austen was a professional writer who spent six...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 23, 2020
Color-coding
Better late than never: Although it appeared more than a month ago, I’ve only just stumbled across a cogent and fascinating analysis of...
Deborah Yaffe
May 10, 2020
On and off
For those of us who love our Jane Austen adaptations, the coronavirus quarantine has been the best of times and the worst of times. The...
Deborah Yaffe
May 6, 2020
Silver linings
There’s an upside to everything, apparently – even a global pandemic that threatens to sicken and perhaps kill millions while tanking the...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 18, 2020
Feverish
No one in Jane Austen’s novels becomes infected with a coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean she has nothing to say on the subject that now...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 15, 2020
Emma again
Actor/playwright Kate Hamill has cornered the market on energetic, quirky theatrical adaptations of classic literature – Vanity Fair,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2020
Emma fashionista
The new feature-film adaptation of Emma opened this past weekend, but not, alas, in my neck of the woods, where we proles must wait until...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 24, 2020
The big event
We’re just days away from one of the year’s big Janeite events: Friday’s U.S. opening of the new feature film adaptation of Emma, a week...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 17, 2020
Sneak previews
The new year is shaping up as a happy one for Janeites, at least American ones, since it will usher in two new Austen adaptations – the...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 25, 2019
The sound of (Austen) music
Music plays intermittent cameo roles in Jane Austen’s novels: think of Mary Bennet delighting us long enough in Pride and Prejudice, or...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 7, 2019
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