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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

A song in our hearts

It’s cold outside, and the pandemic still rages. You may not feel like singing a happy tune. But if you’re a Janeite, someone else is...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 11, 2021

Keeping up with the Kambridges

Trendy fashion accessories come and go. One year, it’s thigh-high red boots and black berets; the next it’s purple shoes and tiny...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 1, 2020

Feverish

No one in Jane Austen’s novels becomes infected with a coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean she has nothing to say on the subject that now...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 15, 2020

Model city

Now this is a community event I can get behind. Over the weekend of January 10-12, the city of Modesto in California’s Central Valley is...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 30, 2019

Greatest Hits, Part I

The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 28, 2019

Too darn hot

The dog days of summer are approaching, and perhaps that’s why the amount of Stupid Jane Austen Stuff coming my way seems to have ramped...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 30, 2019

Jane Austen Purim

Today is Purim, the Jewish version of Mardi Gras, on which we eat a big meal, dress in silly costumes, read the Biblical book of Esther,...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 20, 2019

Nineteen

Nineteen is a number much on our collective minds today, as we prepare to usher in 2019, the last year of the second decade of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 31, 2018

International (mis)understanding

With their film adaptations and their fanfics and their Austen societies, residents of the Indian subcontinent seem to love Jane Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 1, 2018

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

Christmas tranquility and tedium at Mansfield Park

For those of us with school-age children, Christmas week provides a delightful break from the rhythms of the academic calendar: No rising...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 25, 2017

More pictures of Fanny

Earlier this month, Janeites were delighted when the Folio Society publishers and the House of Illustration, a London gallery devoted to...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 16, 2017