Loveuary with Jane Austen | DeborahYaffe.com

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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Feb 26

Playing it safe

Early in the Hallmark Channel’s new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the recently bereaved Dashwood women stand on the front steps of...

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Feb 12

Not loving it

A lot of Austen fans refer to our beloved author as “Jane.” I do not. Partly, that’s because I don’t want to participate in a somewhat...

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Feb 5

Something very shocking

In late 2022, I attended the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meeting, held that year in Victoria, British Columbia....

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Feb 1

Digital fan

My “digital fan kit” arrived the day before I was set to join the first of two online book club meetings promoting the Hallmark Channel’s...

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Jan 4

Jane-talk, sponsored

Back in the summer of 2022, TikTok kicked off its inaugural book club with a group reading of Persuasion. Allegedly, the TikTok Book Club...

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Jan 1

Happy New Loveyear

New Year’s Day has its melancholy side: Tinsel shelved until next December, work on the horizon, hangover hanging on. Luckily, however,...