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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

Still missing

Today’s Jane Austen happening is what hasn’t happened yet: Almost exactly three years after an artist engraved tiny portraits of Jane...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 19, 2019

In the annals of news-that-isn’t-exactly-new, the year 1975 holds a special place. That fall, the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 13, 2018

How time flies. It’s been exactly a year since a Scottish art gallery announced that Graham Short, an artist known for his teeny-tiny...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 7, 2017

The Roald Dahl-flavored tale of the four specially engraved, possibly valuable Jane Austen £5 notes continues to be The Story That Will...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 19, 2017

Just when you thought everyone had forgotten about the final Jane Austen Mystery Fiver – the still-missing British £5 note engraved with...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 29, 2017

I clearly don’t have much of a future as a soothsayer. Back in December, I predicted that it could take many, many months for lucky Brits...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 23, 2017

For the past month, I have attempted to cultivate an air of studied indifference to the story of the Priceless Fivers – the four British...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 5, 2017

Just yesterday, I was expressing skepticism about whether the famous, allegedly valuable Jane Austen £5 notes would turn up any time...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 16, 2016

It’s been nearly two weeks already, but the British press cannot get enough of the Jane-Austen-meets-Roald-Dahl story of the specially...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 15, 2016

Someday very soon, a lucky Brit will turn a crisp new £5 note to the light, just so, and something unexpected will appear: A tiny...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 5, 2016