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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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Parched
I haven’t set foot in a movie theater in five months. (March 7. Multiplex up the road from here. The new adaptation of Emma, a pretty...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 9, 2020
Beach reading
It’s always encouraging when excellent contemporary writers turn out to have great taste in literature (i.e., taste that agrees with my...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2019
On this day in 1805. . .
Forty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. "It is a period, indeed!” Captain Wentworth exclaims to Anne...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 10, 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
Desperately seeking romance in Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf famously wrote of Jane Austen that “of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” Let...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 13, 2018
The best company
When you’re off to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual conference, and the theme of that conference is Persuasion,...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 26, 2018
Sightings
One of the occupational hazards of Janeite life is a heightened sensitivity to every mention of Jane Austen, no matter the context....
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 12, 2018
Retracing Louisa's steps
Jane Austen’s characters and situations feel so real to us that it’s easy to overlook the fact that many of her stories are set in...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 26, 2018
Unpersuaded
Pride and Prejudice isn’t just Jane Austen’s most famous and popular novel. Of all her stories, it’s also the best suited to modern-dress...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 2018
Bringing up the rear
Six months ago, author and scholar Sarah Emsley launched a blog series dedicated to the two Austen novels marking their bicentenary this...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 27, 2018
More reasons to visit Chawton
The most beloved Austen site in England -- Jane Austen’s House Museum, aka Chawton Cottage, the Hampshire home where Austen wrote or...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 1, 2018
Worldwide Jane in 2018
Once upon a time, Jane Austen was a British writer. But today, she’s an international phenomenon, with fan societies on at least five...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 1, 2018
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