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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

My old Kentucky scone

It is one of my life’s small, poignant sorrows that I have not yet made it to the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, which by...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 8, 2016

Jane Austen festivals are a dime a dozen by now, but Jane Austen Regency Week, the nine-day Austen festival that begins this Saturday,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 17, 2015

Was Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy always seen as the quintessential romantic icon, even in that misty prehistoric time known as B.C. (Before...

Deborah Yaffe

May 24, 2015

Given the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 5, 2015

Okay, I admit I’m mostly linking this because I get a kick out of the baby-in-a-bonnet photo. But it’s also true that this coming...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 18, 2015

Jane Austen isn't just everywhere; she's all the time. After a busy year celebrating Mansfield Park's two hundredth anniversary,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 1, 2015

It hasn’t quite been Ten Days that Rocked the Jane Austen World, but this past week or so has brought us several memorable Janeite teapot...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 24, 2014

We Janeites like to think of ourselves as a community whose shared enthusiasm transcends the artificiality of mere lines on a map,...

Deborah Yaffe

May 21, 2014

For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 30, 2013