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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 15, 2017
Austen's eyes
When the whole world is gobbling down a giant ice cream sundae, it can be hard to come along and insist we all switch to spinach. But...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 12, 2017
On this day in 1817. . .
Twenty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen: realist or romantic? Cynic or softie? You’ll...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 9, 2017
On this day in 1807. . .
Twentieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen came from a large and close-knit tribe of siblings...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 9, 2017
On this day in 1796. . .
Nineteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. If Cassandra Austen had known how much speculation would be...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2, 2017
A whirlwind new year for Janeites
Happy new year, Janeites! For us fans of Jane Austen, 2017 is a big year, the biggest since – well, since 2013, when we celebrated the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 19, 2016
On this day in 1798. . .
Eighteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Reading has its hierarchies. We prefer acquaintances to catch...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 21, 2016
On this day in 1800. . .
Seventeenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In 1884, when Jane Austen’s great-nephew Lord Brabourne...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 26, 2016
On this day in 1798. . .
Sixteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Two hundred and eighteen years ago today, on October 27, 1798,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 7, 2016
On this day in 1816. . .
Fifteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26, 2016
Austen's simple old songs
Like her characters Marianne Dashwood and Jane Fairfax, Jane Austen was, we are told, a committed amateur pianist. “In her youth she had...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 22, 2016
On this day in 1814. . .
Fourteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Jane Austen’s circle of real friends seems to have been...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 25, 2016
On this day in 1801. . .
Thirteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Finding biographical resonances in Jane Austen’s writing is a...
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