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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
Oct 29, 2014
Trekkies in bonnets
Are Janeites just Trekkies in bonnets? We Austen fans are used to the Trekkie comparison, which often serves as a shorthand way to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 12, 2014
What I heard at the AGM
I’m back home after four whirlwind days at the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meeting – held this year in Montreal...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 8, 2014
Montreal ahoy!
By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way to Montreal, for this year’s JASNA AGM. Although I’ve attended the last five AGMs (plus two...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 24, 2014
Games Janeites play
It hasn’t quite been Ten Days that Rocked the Jane Austen World, but this past week or so has brought us several memorable Janeite teapot...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 21, 2014
Clone me, please
Holy scheduling conflict, Batman! Just a couple of short-ish train rides from my home, a delightful-sounding Janeite event will take...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 21, 2014
Aux armes, citoyens!
We Janeites like to think of ourselves as a community whose shared enthusiasm transcends the artificiality of mere lines on a map,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 27, 2014
Janeite heaven
I spent my weekend in Janeite heaven: Saturday at “Jane Austen Day,” a delightful conference sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 30, 2013
Jane Austen's 2013
For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 29, 2013
Home again, and happy
I listened to eminent scholars offer fascinating new perspectives on Darcy and Elizabeth, added a coffee mug adorned with a Mary Crawford...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 25, 2013
Janeites in heaven
There is joy in Janeite-ville this week: the Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America – the JASNA AGM – kicks...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 26, 2013
Kids these days
Now why didn't they do this kind of thing when I was in college? Students at Monmouth College, a small, private liberal-arts school in...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 12, 2013
Minneapolis ahoy!
I had an unbreakable date at 1 pm yesterday: that was when online registration opened for this September’s Annual General Meeting of the...
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