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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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On this day in 1814. . .
Ninety-fifth in an occasional series  of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters.  Jane Austen was a patriotic Briton, and during her...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 2, 2024
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On this day in 1813. . .
Ninety-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only about two years of Jane Austen’s childhood were spent...
Deborah Yaffe
May 20, 2024
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On this day in 1811. . .
Eighty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s traditional to envision Jane Austen as a homebody, and...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 20, 2023
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On this day in 1815. . .
Sixty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Last month, I noted that Jane Austen’s account of a...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 18, 2021
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On this day in 1813. . .
Sixty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Nostalgia for Jane Austen’s era has always struck me as...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 16, 2021
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On this day in 1814. . .
Sixty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. We’ve all got those relatives – the ones we know about but...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 23, 2021
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On this day in 1801. . .
Sixty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen communicated nothing particularly remarkable in...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 11, 2021
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Crashing at Henry's place
Few of Jane Austen’s heroines are economically secure, so it’s ironic that her modern-day brand has become inextricably associated with...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 7, 2020
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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
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On this day in 1817. . .
Fifty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. I recently finished reading my eighth biography of Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
May 28, 2020
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Austen's pewter
Jane Austen, her brother Henry would have us believe, didn’t care about making money. “She became an authoress entirely from taste and...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 12, 2019
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On this day in 1814. . .
Thirty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Two centuries ago, Jane Austen had spent her day...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 8, 2018
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