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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

Second bananas

We Janeites may love Austen’s heroes and heroines, but it’s her secondary characters who make us laugh out loud. Fanny Dashwood’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 13, 2019

Keeping up with the Janeites

I don’t speak Kardashian. I have trouble distinguishing among the K-named females of the clan, disentangling the one who married Kanye...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 29, 2019

Pictures at an exhibition

Is Michelle Obama a Janeite? As far as I’m aware, no documentation exists to settle the question either way. But circumstantial evidence...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 15, 2019

Greatest Hits, Part II

As I have pointed out rather often, most recently earlier this week, the Internet is filled with quotes from filmed adaptations of Jane...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 31, 2019

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...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 28, 2019

Keeping up with the Jameses

Some weeks, the Austen-related news tidbits that come my way are scattered and disparate, lacking any unifying theme. And then there’s...

Deborah Yaffe

May 5, 2019

Promising news about Emma

The upcoming big-screen adaptation of Emma has acquired a complete cast list, and for those of us who delight in fine British character...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 27, 2019

The dating game

Valentine’s Day, the celebration of lovers, dates back to the Middle Ages. Yet Jane Austen – often described as the mother of the romance...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 14, 2019

Penguin of destiny

Literary critics turn up in the most unexpected places. Last November, the Maryland Zoo, in Baltimore, asked the public whether this...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 14, 2019

Kids in America

Over the weekend, I went to see Clueless: The Musical. It made me miss Clueless: The Movie. Which was probably not the intended effect....

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 7, 2019

Nineteen

Nineteen is a number much on our collective minds today, as we prepare to usher in 2019, the last year of the second decade of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 31, 2018

A really accomplished young computer

Jane Austen’s novels have provided the inspiration for any number of musical treatments, from operas and a classical instrumental suite...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 19, 2018