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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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Balls in the air
Ah, the passive voice. It conceals a multitude of sins. The other day, I happened across one of my favorite genres of newspaper story:...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 9, 2021
Required reading
Last week, a British judge imposed an unusual sentence on a young man convicted of possessing terrorism-related materials. "Have you read...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 6, 2021
Raising Jane(ites)
Long ago, I danced at a JASNA ball with a twelve-year-old girl who, when I asked if she was a Janeite, told me that she had “been raised...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2021
Silt and sensibility
As we Pride and Prejudice readers know, Mr. Darcy’s responsible stewardship of his beautiful grounds at Pemberley is an important factor...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 16, 2021
Deck the halls
It was Christmas in July for those of us who spend our days looking for pop-culture recognition of Jane Austen’s genius: * July 14:...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 12, 2021
On fire
Nearly two years ago, word trickled out that a same-sex update of Pride and Prejudice, set on the gay mecca of New York’s Fire Island,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 15, 2021
The dating game
Some weeks, it’s not clear what tidbit of gossip or news deserves mention as the biggest story in Jane Austen fandom. Other weeks, a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2021
In the green room
It’s a funny time right now for us theater-loving Janeites: Some of our favorite things are still virtual, others are on their way back...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 17, 2021
Party like. . .
Five years ago, in a blog post headlined “Party like it’s 1995,” I heralded a forthcoming spate of filmed Jane Austen adaptations – a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 10, 2021
Mr. Wickham, live
The BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is known among Janeites by various shorthands: * There’s “the wet-shirt P&P,” for...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 19, 2021
Happy birthday indeed
For most people, this past year has been at best pretty bad and at worst utterly tragic. On the bright side, however, the challenge of...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 29, 2021
Jane Austen wrote here?
If you spend a lot of time online, it can sometimes seem that every house for sale in England has a tangential Jane Austen connection...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 18, 2021
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