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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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Scary monsters

Happy Halloween, Janeites! Although Austen wrote no scenes of trick-or-treating, pumpkin-carving, or gorging on candy corn, she certainly...

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'Twas the night before Christmas

Tomorrow is Christmas, the day on which a larger-than-life personage employing semi-equine transport suddenly appears in our homes,...

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Rosenbach reading group

Discussing Jane Austen with fellow fans is one of the delights of Janeite life. If I lived closer to Philly, I would definitely have...

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Who you callin' unpublished?

So I’ve finally seen Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship, the much-heralded film adaptation of Lady Susan. (I enjoyed it, if perhaps not...

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Finishing the already finished

Excited as I am to see Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Lady Susan, I’ve been more than a little skeptical of...

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The end of a dry spell?

We fans of Jane Austen movie adaptations have had kind of a dry spell for the last few years. We’ve watched poor Sally Hawkins gallop...

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Whit tries Jane

Best Jane Austen news of the week (at least potentially): Shooting is about to start on director Whit Stillman’s movie of Lady Susan,...