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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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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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A Janeite's Janeite passes on
Edith Lank, who died on New Year’s Day at the age of ninety-six, was a Janeite’s Janeite. She read and reread Austen’s novels; began...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 5, 2023
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Dinner time
A common Janeite fantasy goes like this: You meet Jane Austen. Naturally, she finds you interesting and delightful. You get her take on,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 29, 2022
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Sugarplums
As Christmas approaches, the internet has been filling our Janeite stockings with tidbits of Austen-related news: --Ahoy, there: Last...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 19, 2022
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CryptoJane, Part II
Jane Austen’s famous remark about the relative value of tangible and intangible assets–“tho’ I like praise as well as anybody, I like...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 1, 2022
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The pendulum swings
The smashing success of Netflix’s Bridgerton has ushered in a new era of multiracial casting in Regency costume dramas. This is good...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 13, 2022
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Ahead of his time
Janeites first discover Jane Austen at different moments in their lives. I’ve talked with people who read her first in a high school or...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 6, 2022
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The Austen MBA
We all read Jane Austen for different reasons. (I wrote a whole book about this phenomenon.) Some read her for the lucidity of her...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 3, 2022
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Reading Austen in high places
A few months ago, I noted that the British royal family appears to include a critical mass of women who are crazy about Jane Austen. (Or...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 19, 2022
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She plays well at the palace
Seven years ago, we learned that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall – aka the wife of Prince Charles and future queen consort of England – is a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 20, 2022
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Love means never having to say you're sorry
When I was growing up in 1970s and -80s heartland America, my taste for classic literature, including Jane Austen, made me . . . well, I...
Deborah Yaffe
May 16, 2022
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Jane Austen, elixir of youth?
Last year, an Australian octogenarian named Ruth Wilson made headlines when she completed a doctoral degree on Jane Austen and the...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 18, 2022
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