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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
Aug 6, 2017
Another option for Janeite game night
Perhaps it is because game-playing is so common in Jane Austen’s novels – think Lydia Bennet’s lottery tickets, Mary Crawford’s spirited...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 5, 2017
Austen laurels
D-Day for Janeites – aka July 18, the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s untimely death – is approaching quickly, and a number of UK outlets...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 26, 2017
Jane Austen, trumped
For an American, a British spouse confers certain advantages. Your tea will always be expertly brewed. Your friends will find the accent...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 28, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Marrying Mr. Darcy
In Jane Austen’s novels, the quest for a suitable marriage partner is serious business. By law, Regency women surrendered most of their...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 23, 2016
Color to win
When I was ten years old, or thereabouts, I won a coloring contest sponsored by the local bus company. Since my artistic ability was –...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 24, 2015
If your Mr. Right is Mr. Darcy
Was Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy always seen as the quintessential romantic icon, even in that misty prehistoric time known as B.C. (Before...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 22, 2014
It's in the cards
Just in time for Christmas, I’ve become aware of the existence of not one but two new-ish (less than two years old) Jane Austen-related...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 9, 2014
Win big by reading Jane Austen
She’s a brilliant prose stylist, a peerless satirist, the creator of indelible characters. Yeah, yeah, but it turns out that the real...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2013
Janeite game-playing
Jane Austen games are breaking out all over. The creators of Ever, Jane, a new massively multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG)...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 5, 2013
Married to Mr. Darcy?
On-line quizzes claiming to align your personality with that of a literary character are hardly a new phenomenon. (For example, click...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 11, 2013
Gaming Jane Austen
I’m not a video gamer. While I love games – I have fond childhood memories of cutthroat family Monopoly matches and drawn-out Boggle...
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