Sightings
One of the occupational hazards of Janeite life is a heightened sensitivity to every mention of Jane Austen, no matter the context....
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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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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 26, 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 27, 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 1, 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 14, 2017
Another Austen anniversary
The year marking the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death is almost over, but one more major Austen anniversary lies ahead of us: 2018 is...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 23, 2017
Pie and prejudice
Thanksgiving Day is upon us once again, and once again it’s time to search the works of Jane Austen – who, as an Englishwoman who never...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 23, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jocelyn Harris
When Jane Austen described her work as “the little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 3, 2016
That Hamilton woman
Jane Austen was only seven when the American War of Independence ended, and as far as I know she is not on record either pro or con –...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 1, 2016
Not quite Antiques Roadshow
The story sounds irresistible: A treasured Jane Austen first edition, inscribed more than a century earlier to an unknown young woman,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 7, 2016
Getting it wrong, again
It’s time again for one of my favorite pastimes: Making Fun of the Internet – Jane Austen Edition. Today’s episode includes two entries: ...
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