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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
Apr 17, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: John Halperin
Work on Jane Austen, whether biography or literary criticism, arrays itself along a spectrum whose poles might be labeled Jolly Jane and...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 30, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Elizabeth Jenkins
For someone who led such a short, uneventful life, and one about which comparatively little is known, Jane Austen has inspired a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 3, 2016
On this day in 1814. . .
Eleventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters Henry Austen, the fourth-oldest of Jane Austen’s seven siblings,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 11, 2016
A big anniversary, one year early
This past weekend saw the kickoff of Jane Austen 200, the Hampshire, England, commemoration of the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death....
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 30, 2015
On this day in 1814. . .
Ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. We know so little of Jane Austen’s views on nearly everything that...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 23, 2015
On this day in 1805. . .
Seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. One of the pleasures of reading Jane Austen’s letters to her...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2015
Recapturing Austen's physicality
Janeites never tire of speculating about Austen’s appearance (see here and here for examples), despite – or perhaps because of – the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 8, 2015
On this day in 1816. . .
Sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters By all accounts, Jane Austen was an exceptional aunt, and she had a...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 20, 2015
On this day in 1801. . .
Fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Reading Jane Austen’s letters – as I do for this occasional blog...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 3, 2015
Cassandra's grief
Cassandra Austen gets a bad rap from Janeites. As I’ve noted before, many of us just can’t forgive her for burning who-knows-how-many of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 26, 2015
On this day in 1817. . .
Fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters The letter-like document that Jane Austen addressed to her sister,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 29, 2015
A promising cache
We Janeites are starved for material about Jane Austen’s sadly underdocumented life. We’re not unreasonably demanding! Doesn’t have to be...
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