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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

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 16, 2013

Sanditon Summer

The sky is blue, the sun is warm, and it seems only appropriate to spend the summer at the beach – which, for Janeites, means at...

Deborah Yaffe

May 29, 2013

Back to Pemberley

I suppose it was inevitable that Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James’ 2011 murder-mystery-cum-Pride-and-Prejudice-sequel, was headed for...

Deborah Yaffe

May 19, 2013

Scones redux

Two weeks ago, I pointed out that, despite the Emporia Gazette's claims to the contrary, none of Jane Austen’s characters ever eats a...

Deborah Yaffe

May 8, 2013

Can't anyone kill this beast?

Janeite news of the week is the apparent resurrection – cue undead jokes here – of the filmed version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 4, 2013

Anniversaries and explanations

January 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...