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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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Ready, set, read
Amid all the concerts, exhibits, tea parties, balls, walking tours, screen adaptations, and souvenir merch celebrating the 250 th ...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 11, 2025
Seasonable
Autumn is a lovely season in England—cue the Keats : “Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness”--and for Janeites, this fall offers some...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 8, 2025
Coming of age
Say this for Jane Austen: She’s an inexhaustible source of roles for actresses who have aged out of the film industry’s ingenue...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 28, 2025
Second springs
The inexhaustible well of creative inspiration that is Pride and Prejudice looks to be bubbling over once again. Whether you prefer to...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 25, 2025
Voices
Inscriptions in old books have an eerie quality--those glimpses of forgotten lives and echoes of silenced voices. So it’s no wonder that...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 21, 2025
For sale
Few pastimes give me as much pleasure as the ogling of unaffordable real estate. It’s a bonus when said real estate has Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 14, 2025
Girls on film
Three-quarters of the twenty-first century lies ahead of us, but already the New York Times is hard at work on clickbait Best of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 4, 2025
Soaked and sodden
In Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice , no one gets wet, except for poor Jane Bennet, soaked (offstage) while riding to Netherfield...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 31, 2025
Janeite fun for all ages
Although Jane Austen didn’t write for children, many Janeites discover Austen during their tween or teen years, around the age when...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 28, 2025
Hatching time
Like periodical cicadas, Austen adaptations come around on a predictable schedule. Every ten or fifteen years, a newly hatched crew of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 24, 2025
Souvenirs for the bookish
Halfway through this year of Austen 250 celebrations, you may be considering what sort of merch would make an appropriate souvenir of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 17, 2025
Regency runway
I know very little about fashion, as my invariably pedestrian wardrobe choices make immediately clear to everyone I meet. (Who needs Elle...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2025
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