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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 12, 2019
Busting Austen myths
Most Janeites don’t need to hear, yet again, that Jane Austen was not a kindly maiden aunt whose sweet, insubstantial little romance...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 10, 2019
On this day in 1805. . .
Forty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. "It is a period, indeed!” Captain Wentworth exclaims to Anne...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 24, 2019
On this day in 1817. . .
Forty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Those of us who feel strongly about books sometimes subject...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 7, 2019
Getting it wrong
Jane Austen, it seems safe to say, is one of the most famous writers who ever lived, especially in English-speaking countries. Yet out...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 24, 2019
On this day in 1817. . .
Forty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only hindsight makes anything remarkable out of the letter...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 17, 2019
Family album
The Janeite world is a-twitter (and a-Twitter) this week over the serendipitous discovery of a Victorian photo album filled with pictures...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 27, 2018
Ghosts
The voracious interest in all things Jane Austen has inspired plenty of scholarship about her ancestors and her collateral descendants –...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 6, 2018
Live like Jane
Jane Austen was a novelist, not an accountant, therapist, scientist, or priest. But you wouldn’t know it from the array of books...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 23, 2018
On this day in 1813. . .
Thirty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen never lived alone. From her earliest days,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 22, 2018
On this day in 1796. . .
Thirty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The young Jane Austen was a voracious reader. We know this...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 8, 2018
Fascinating Philadelphia
Jane Austen’s paternal aunt Philadelphia Austen Hancock (1730-92) is one of the most fascinating and understudied characters in the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 25, 2018
On this day in 1809. . .
Thirty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters As a novelist, Jane Austen was one of the greatest writers...
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