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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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Virtual Austenland
We all hope our offscreen lives will soon resume, but in the meantime, our gatherings remain virtual. For Janeites, that’s meant online...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 29, 2021
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Cross-channel connections
Jane Austen is usually thought of as a quintessentially English writer, what with all those landed estates, rural rectories, and mannerly...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 15, 2021
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Goodbye at last, 2020
A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 31, 2020
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Bummer :-(
When Elinor Dashwood learns (as she thinks) that the love of her life, Edward Ferrars, has finally married his longtime fiancée, she is...
Deborah Yaffe
May 4, 2020
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Forty years and counting
It’s that time again, Janeites: The Jane Austen Society of North America is holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) over the next four...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 3, 2019
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Party like it's 2019
Over the last eight years, we’ve marked a plethora of Jane Austen anniversaries: the bicentennials of the publications of all six of her...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 3, 2019
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The best company
When you’re off to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual conference, and the theme of that conference is Persuasion,...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 27, 2018
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Inspiring Janeite PR
As a fan of not only Jane Austen but also the Jane Austen Society of North America (member since 1981), I was pleased to see JASNA pop up...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 7, 2018
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Six books
Tomorrow marks the anniversary that we all – or, at least, all those of us who are Janeites – have been waiting for since 2017 dawned:...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 17, 2017
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JASNA, Emma, and D.C.
By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way to Washington, D.C., to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s thirty-eighth...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 20, 2016
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Jane Austen Day in Philly
The Eastern Pennsylvania Region of the Jane Austen Society of North America is, as my inbox can attest, a busy and ambitious group. Their...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 14, 2016
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Among the Janeites at the Eudora Welty Library
My next book talk will take place this coming Sunday, September 20, from 2-4 pm in Jackson, MS: I’ll be speaking to the Mississippi...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 17, 2015
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