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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
Mar 4, 2019
Another bicentenary girl
Back when I was in elementary school, ranking one’s friends – best friend, second-best friend, third-best friend – was a popular pastime....
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 24, 2018
Mockingbird in a landslide
Can I get half credit? As blog readers will recall, last week I predicted (correctly, as it turned out) that Pride and Prejudice,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 17, 2018
The envelope, please. . .
When midnight strikes on the west coast tonight, something momentous will take place: Voting will close in PBS’s Great American Read...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 10, 2018
On this day in 1813. . .
Thirty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Some writers fill their letters with detailed responses to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 23, 2018
On this day in 1813. . .
Thirty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen never lived alone. From her earliest days,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2018
Collecting the uncollected
Fifteen years ago, Silicon Valley gazillionaire and Janeite Sandy Lerner opened Chawton House, a research library dedicated to the...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 30, 2018
Excellent women novelists
Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, as all good Janeites know, but it’s another prominent medieval English church that will...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 8, 2018
On this day in 1814. . .
Thirty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Two centuries ago, Jane Austen had spent her day...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 5, 2018
Women writers, popping up
In your average general-interest bookshop, a majority of the titles have probably been authored by men. No surprise there – historically,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 9, 2017
On the trail of great writers
Logically, there’s no particular reason we dedicated readers should yearn to visit the houses where our favorite writers were born, grew...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 26, 2017
Rabbie and Jane
Yesterday marked the 258th birthday of a giant of British literature. (No, not her! Her birthday was 242 years ago, and in December!) I...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 20, 2016
Two hundred candles for Charlotte
Two hundred years ago today, one of the world’s greatest novelists was born in a small village in rural England. I refer, of course, to...
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