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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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Seven paragraphs to read if you want to

I should probably spend less time thinking about stupid clickbait listicles that mention Jane Austen. My mental health would improve. My...

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Writing women

As a writer who is also a fan of period drama, I pay attention to the screenwriting credits on my favorite literary-minded TV...

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Boo!

It’s the scary season – ghosts, witches, creaking doors in haunted houses. For Janeites, however, the Internet’s frightening capacity to...

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Deck the halls

It was Christmas in July for those of us who spend our days looking for pop-culture recognition of Jane Austen’s genius: * July 14:...

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Meme-ing of Jane

Janeite creativity, while most obvious in the groaning shelves of fanfiction based on Austen’s novels, isn’t confined to any one medium:...

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Fifty Shades of Jane

By now, you may have heard that the filmed adaptation of a pop-culture work with a legion of breathless fans is coming to a multiplex...

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**headdesk**

Some days you get that hopeless feeling – that sense that the mountain of ignorance is so high and so wide that you, chipping away with...

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Jane Austen, Jane Eyre. Whatever.

I love it when things like this* turn up in my daily Google alert for "Jane Austen": "Apparently every generation needs its own version...