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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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Fun run
Pride and Prejudice is a novel filled with long walks. But jogging? Not so much. Elizabeth Bennet strides from Longbourn to Netherfield,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 23
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Castle games
At first blush, The Austen Experience seems the stuff of Janeite dreams: A spring weekend spent swanning around a Swedish castle in...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 6
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Words with Jane
My name is Deborah, and I am a puzzle addict. My morning begins with a brisk jaunt through a trio of New York Times  offerings— Wordle ,...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 25, 2024
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In for the quill
Once upon a time, the hottest thing in video gaming was the Nintendo Entertainment System. Back then, the pixelated graphics necessitated...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 22, 2024
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Bowled over
In the early days of our romance, my now-husband, a Brit with a deep fondness for the sports of his island home, tried valiantly to...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 12, 2023
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Jane Austen, matchmaker
The characters that Teri Roberts and Rachel Walton portrayed in the faux-Regency world of the Austen-themed online role-playing game...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 26, 2023
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Thin gruel
Early last Tuesday morning, I opened up my phone to Wordle, the now-famous daily word-finding puzzle, and typed my usual starting guess:...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 22, 2022
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High stakes, low stakes
In Jane Austen’s novels, the stakes of the courtship game could hardly be higher: Her heroines face irrevocable decisions that will...
Deborah Yaffe
May 30, 2022
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Love hurts
The sting of rejection is an emotion whose nuances Jane Austen understood well – whether the agony of the jilted Marianne Dashwood (“Good...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 24, 2022
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Of castles and chakras
When NBC announced last month that it had changed the name of its new Regency-themed dating show from Pride and Prejudice: An Experiment...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 7, 2022
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Courtin' time
Finally, NBC has released a trailer for The Courtship, the upcoming reality-TV show featuring Austen-era costumes and dating rituals, and...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 21, 2022
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Break out the popcorn
March is shaping up to be a big month for Janeites who like Austen-related TV and aren’t too picky about its relationship to anything...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 7, 2022
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