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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 14, 2017
Sometimes folly is folly
“To put it bluntly, he was screwing her.” It’s not every day that my Jane Austen Google alert yields a line like that. Especially when...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 10, 2017
Stealing Home?
In Austen studies, originality is hard to come by. The primary sources – novels, letters, family reminiscences, unfinished work – are...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 26, 2017
Refighting the winning battle
Barely is the metaphorical ink dry on my recent blog post lamenting all the great UK Jane Austen bicentenary events that we American...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2017
On this day in 1817. . .
Twenty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Devotees of the Victorian novel are familiar with the Will...
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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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