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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
May 1, 2019
Talking with Britain's most-photographed man
When I visited the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England, in July 2011, Martin Salter had the day off. At the time, I didn’t know what I...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 24, 2019
Jane the dragon
Tanya Gold hates Jane Austen. She told us so earlier this week, in a piece published on the media platform UnHerd, whose goal is “to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 17, 2019
Julian Assange, Janeite?
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is a controversial man. Depending on your point of view, he’s either a valiant freedom fighter...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 7, 2019
Jane Austen's first critic
For Janeites, it’s salt rubbed in a wound: the news that scholars will soon be able to inspect a fascinating trove of letters from an...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 18, 2019
What's your name again?
It’s always enjoyable when the mass media provide opportunities for us Janeites to snark about everyone else’s Austen ignorance. Today’s...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 10, 2019
A tourist in Bath
Last Thursday, James McAvoy, the excellent Scottish actor who played Jane Austen’s crush Tom Lefroy in the 2007 film Becoming Jane, paid...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 3, 2019
Party like it's 2019
Over the last eight years, we’ve marked a plethora of Jane Austen anniversaries: the bicentennials of the publications of all six of her...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 7, 2018
Unfinished business
Jane Austen’s books – usually Pride and Prejudice, sometimes Emma, occasionally one of the others -- perennially land on those...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 26, 2018
The best company
When you’re off to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual conference, and the theme of that conference is Persuasion,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 19, 2018
Belonging
Last year, I blogged about Alejandra Carles-Tolra, a young Spanish photographer, based in London, who had won a competitive grant to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 16, 2018
Not very Jane Austen at all
Dissing the members of the British royal family -- at least the popular ones -- is not for the faint of heart. Jane Austen confined her...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 12, 2018
Sightings
One of the occupational hazards of Janeite life is a heightened sensitivity to every mention of Jane Austen, no matter the context....
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