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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

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