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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
Sep 9, 2018
Naked(-ish) in Bath
Poor never-married Jane Austen: Lacking nuptials, she never got a bachelorette party, either. Strange, then – not to say strangely...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 15, 2018
Death of an anti-Janeite
The death last week of Nobel Prize-winning author V.S. Naipaul prompted the customary chorus of praise for his writing, as well as the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 5, 2018
Death of an Austen descendant
Thanks to her four reproductively prolific brothers – James, Edward, Frank, and Charles produced an impressive total of thirty-three sons...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 18, 2018
Tiara time again
It’s been almost four years since we had a reason to put “Jane Austen” and “beauty pageant” in the same sentence. Frankly, we were...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 8, 2018
Remembering feminist history
In Jane Austen’s time, as we know, women’s lives and opportunities were circumscribed in ways we can scarcely imagine today. Women were...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 4, 2018
What's in a name?
Shakespeare’s ardent fans are called Bardolators, not Willcolytes. Dickens admirers are Dickensians, not Chuck-a-holics. Devotees of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 24, 2018
Graphing the plot
Back in high school, I did reasonably well in math. I may have trouble balancing my checkbook these days, but I promise I’m not one of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 17, 2018
Ready for its closeups
A couple of months ago, when Jane Austen’s House Museum unveiled the results of the collaborative quilting project it organized to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 10, 2018
On this day in 1799. . .
Thirty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The story of Jane Austen fandom has been told more than...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 6, 2018
Inspiring Janeite PR
As a fan of not only Jane Austen but also the Jane Austen Society of North America (member since 1981), I was pleased to see JASNA pop up...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 27, 2018
Proust questionnaire for a Janeite
Last month, as blog readers will recall, a non-profit executive and Janeite with the extraordinarily appropriate name of Janet Austin was...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 29, 2018
Janet knows Jane
It’s not every day that the first question a newspaper asks of a newly appointed government official is “Are your parents big Jane Austen...
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