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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 1, 2016
I is for intervention
The year is young, and already I’ve read a book that I consider a masterpiece worthy of my rare five-star Goodreads rating, which I...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 19, 2015
Voting Austen onto the island
Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister – in other words, the head of Scotland’s semi-autonomous government – is a famously patriotic...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 2, 2015
Famous non-friend likes Austen
It’s always nice to find Austen fans in semi-unexpected places. Today’s entry comes from this recent interview with Joshua Malina, a star...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 21, 2015
James on Jane
The popular, movie-inflected view of Jane Austen is so thoroughly imbued with stereotypical, romanticized girliness – fair maidens,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 20, 2015
Janeite retirement
One of the many pleasures of researching Among the Janeites was the chance it gave me to meet fellow Austen fans from across the country...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 9, 2015
Books to flee by
In 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, Soviet spies burrowed deep into the British Foreign Office, realized they were on the brink of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 9, 2015
Miss Price goes to Washington
Jane Austen has been a semi-regular presence in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly “By the Book” feature, in which noted authors...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 19, 2015
May Jane be with you
Fandom need not be monogamous. “It's apparent that there is a fannish personality,” the dance historian Allison Thompson told me when I...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 31, 2015
The Jane Austen diet plan
We Janeites hail our beloved author as a witty social critic, a source of romantic escapism, a harbinger of a more civilized age, a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 19, 2015
Take a letter, Ms. Austen
I write letters. Admittedly, I wrote more of them before the advent of email, but I still try to send my oldest friends handwritten...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2015
Calling all Austen nerds
Given the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2015
Winnie, Lizzy, and Camilla
Elizabeth Bennet – vivacious, witty, charming and good-hearted – has many fans. Add to the list Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, wife of...
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