Life 12/12

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

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 15, 2014

Another Jane Austen Day

Tomorrow is December 16–for some, just another Tuesday in late fall; for others, Beethoven’s birthday; and for Janeites, of course, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 21, 2014

Clone me, please

Holy scheduling conflict, Batman! Just a couple of short-ish train rides from my home, a delightful-sounding Janeite event will take...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 16, 2014

The sun of our lives

Tomorrow marks the 197th anniversary of Jane Austen’s death, at 41, in a rented house at 8 College Street, Winchester, England....

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 29, 2014

Jane Austen, imagined friend

Yesterday’s New York Times Book Review ran an article by poet and critic Adam Kirsch responding to the question, “When we read fiction,...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 20, 2014

Sleep under Jane Austen's roof

Yet another goodie for Janeites to gaze at wistfully: an opportunity to win a mid-week stay in Bath, England, in a building described as...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 2, 2014

How to write like Austen

Jane Austen’s writing routine: a model for us all? Apparently so, according to a new-ish book mentioned in a recent Harvard Business...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 27, 2014

Goofy Austen News; or, Any Link to Jane Will Do

There are weeks when all you hear about Jane Austen is staid, decorous stuff: the prospect of a new film adaptation, or the exhibit of a...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 5, 2013

Jane Austen and homework

It’s ironic that the British charter school in the news this week for its plans to abolish homework is named after Jane Austen. Austen’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 17, 2013

Austen and Boston

In May of 1811, Jane Austen’s local newspaper carried a report of the Battle of Albuera, a bloody encounter pitting Britain and its...