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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

Deborah Yaffe

May 24, 2015

If your Mr. Right is Mr. Darcy

Was Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy always seen as the quintessential romantic icon, even in that misty prehistoric time known as B.C. (Before...

Deborah Yaffe

May 6, 2015

Mr. Darcy's six-pack

The British actor Matthew Macfadyen – whom many Janeites remember fondly as Darcy in the 2005 feature-film version of Pride and Prejudice...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 29, 2015

Mr. Darcy revealed! (Or not)

Another day, another Mr. Darcy. Over the years, various ambitious authors and breathless journalists have informed us of their amazing...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 11, 2015

Mr. Darcy, slave trader?

“Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy made his fortune from slavery”! “Romantic hero profited from the misery of others”! So scream this week’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 4, 2014

On the first day of Mr. Darcy. . .

As a good (well, semi-good) Jewish girl, I’ve never owned an Advent calendar. The closest I ever came was in childhood, when we’d visit...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 13, 2014

Pemberley for sale

Ogling unattainable real estate is one of life’s great pleasures, and the mother of all real estate ogling is upon us now: Wentworth...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 19, 2014

Darcy in Lilliput

When a twelve-foot-high fiberglass statue of wet-shirt-Darcy was erected in a famed London lake last summer, it seemed the apotheosis of...