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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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Dweeby Darcy
Edward IV, who reigned as king of England for most of the period from 1461-1483, was described by contemporaries as an unusually handsome...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 13, 2017
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Austen sleuthing
Although “Jane Austen Detectives” sounds like the title of a beach book I’d want to read, it’s actually the name of a sixteen-month-old...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 8, 2016
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Sharing scholarship
And here's the second addition this week to the category of Nifty Web Sites I Only Just Heard About: The 18th-Century Common, “a public...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 4, 2016
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Six degrees of Austen
For years, movie buffs have entertained themselves with a game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Start with Movie Actor #1, name a movie...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 1, 2016
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That Hamilton woman
Jane Austen was only seven when the American War of Independence ended, and as far as I know she is not on record either pro or con –...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 4, 2016
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The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jenny Uglow
The classics are timeless, we are told. Their freshness has no sell-by date; their concerns seem as urgent in our times as in the times...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 30, 2016
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The Austen Catch-Up Project: Roy and Lesley Adkins
The 2007 movie of Karen Joy Fowler’s novel The Jane Austen Book Club opens with a montage designed to evoke the noise, stress and...
Deborah Yaffe
May 30, 2016
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Mr. Darcy's six-pack
The British actor Matthew Macfadyen – whom many Janeites remember fondly as Darcy in the 2005 feature-film version of Pride and Prejudice...
Deborah Yaffe
May 7, 2015
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Mr. Darcy, slave trader?
“Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy made his fortune from slavery”! “Romantic hero profited from the misery of others”! So scream this week’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 12, 2015
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On this day in 1813. . .
Second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters: Two hundred and two years ago today, on February 16, 1813, Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 16, 2015
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Darcy the one-tenth-of-one-percenter
A fascinating column in a recent edition of the Financial Times’ FT Magazine uses the income data in Pride and Prejudice to illustrate a...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 10, 2014
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In it for the money
Not being a math type, I have never spent much time trying to calculate the contemporary equivalents of the sums mentioned in Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 4, 2014
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