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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
Feb 6, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Eucharista Ward
Jane Austen’s life was steeped in religion. As the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she almost certainly believed in God, attended...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 3, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Helen Baker
News flash: it’s hard to write like Jane Austen. I don’t just mean that it’s hard to emulate Austen’s diamond-bright sentences, with...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 30, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Merryn Williams
Merryn Williams’ completion of The Watsons, Jane Austen’s fragment of a novel, is a modest undertaking. With new material that runs only...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 27, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken’s books were among the delights of my childhood – propulsive, plot-driven novels in the Gothic spirit of Victorian classics...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 23, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: David Hopkinson ("Another")
What is it with the extended Hubback clan? They just can’t seem to get enough of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons. The first person to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 20, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: John Coates
Jane Austen was not perfect. Not every sentence that fell from her pen was a masterpiece; like all of us, she needed an editor’s eye from...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 16, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Edith Hubback Brown
Less than two sentences into her preface, Edith Hubback Brown is already asserting her genetic right to complete Jane Austen’s fragment...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 13, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: L. Oulton
Catherine Hubback, the first person to try her hand at a completion of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons, is no longer an entirely...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 9, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Catherine Hubback
The first-ever completion of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons – Catherine Hubback’s 1850 novel The Younger Sister, the subject of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 6, 2014
The Watsons in Winter
The Watsons, the novel Jane Austen started and then abandoned on the cusp of her thirties, is a wintry book: not, perhaps, in its...
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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
Oct 27, 2013
Dissed by the Austen Project
Joanna Trollope’s modern-dress adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the first in a planned series of six Austen updates by popular...
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