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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
Mar 8, 2021
Janeites from eight to eighty-eight
We Janeites like to say that Austen’s novels can be enjoyed at any age, albeit in different ways, and seldom has a week’s news brought...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 25, 2021
Jane Austen in the age of Zoom
A year ago, I was looking forward to my upcoming appearance at Jane Austen Day, a biannual event sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 8, 2021
Among the greats
For college professors, accustomed to lecturing to captive audiences of sometimes disengaged undergraduates, it’s a badge of honor to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 1, 2021
The perfect happiness of the union
"You have some news to hear, now you are come back, that will rather surprise you." "Have I?" said he quietly, and looking at her; "of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 25, 2021
A Janeite goes home
A man whose love for Jane Austen helped sustain him during a brutal ten-month battle with COVID and its aftermath finally returned to his...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 31, 2020
Goodbye at last, 2020
A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 5, 2020
Good timing
This weekend, time zones are friendly to Janeites with an appetite for online convening. On paper, it looks like you’d have to choose how...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28, 2020
Down Under Austen
For Janeites, the highlight of this month’s online social calendar was the Jane Austen Society of North America’s first-ever virtual...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 16, 2020
A Janeite recovers
Earlier this summer, it looked like COVID would take the life of a seventy-three-year-old British lawyer named Geoff Woolf. During his...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2020
Passing Go
In case you were wondering how high the bar for Janeite gift-giving could be set, wonder no longer: Josh Jordan, a twenty-nine-year-old...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 8, 2020
Happy birthday, JAS
A thousand years ago – or, actually, back in January – the big Janeite news of 2020 was shaping up to be the eightieth anniversary of the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 7, 2020
Being Bennet(t)
When I read fanfiction that updates Jane Austen’s stories to contemporary settings, I often find myself exasperated by the names....
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