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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

Bait and switch?

“Jane Austen’s Birthplace Hits the Market”! “Your chance to live in the beloved author’s treasured family home”! When these headlines...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 20, 2023

Back in 2017, Jane Austen’s birthplace, the Hampshire village of Steventon, marked the bicentennial of her death by converting a disused...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 2, 2023

Eighty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In January 1801, the twenty-five-year-old Jane Austen was...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 9, 2023

Seventy-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. How autobiographical is Jane Austen’s writing? Impossible...

Deborah Yaffe

May 12, 2022

If only the Austens had invested in Steventon real estate. Back in 1801, as Janeites will recall, the Rev. George Austen moved out of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 6, 2020

Now that this Austen bicentenary year is in full swing, the announcements of commemorative events pegged to the July 18 anniversary of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 1, 2017

If you are a Janeite with no 2016 Christmas plans – and a whole wad of cash left over from this year’s gift shopping – the New York Times...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 23, 2015