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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

Bookshelf for sale

At the back of Rebecca Romney’s new book Jane Austen's Bookshelf: A Rare Book Collector's Quest to Find the Women Writers Who Shaped a...

Deborah Yaffe

2 days ago

Pemberley on the wall

When Elizabeth Bennet visits Pemberley, she admires the furniture, the paintings, and the view from the windows. Apparently, however, she...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 20

Catering to the kids

Do Kids These Days need to be coaxed into picking up a book? What with their new-fangled BookTok and #bookstagram, they seem to be doing...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 10

Proud as a peacock

I’m so fond of the famous “Peacock edition" of Pride and Prejudice that its glorious art nouveau cover--featuring a graceful vase, some...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 26, 2024

The oracle of Austen

Long ago, as readers of Among the Janeites may recall, I had a curious encounter with a Jane Austen tarot card. It appeared to advise me...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 19, 2024

Marital gift-giving

As a card-carrying Wife, I feel I must call my Husband’s attention to a recent feature in Town & Country magazine, “ 40 of the Best...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 16, 2024

Beyond the quill

Jane Austen wrote with a quill pen. Most of us would agree that she managed pretty well with that particular technology. So just imagine...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 8, 2024

Merch

Last month, I had occasion to call myself “a pedantic Janeite killjoy.” (And not for the first time, as I was reminded in the comments...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 8, 2024

In for the quill

Once upon a time, the hottest thing in video gaming was the Nintendo Entertainment System. Back then, the pixelated graphics necessitated...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 22, 2024

If the shoe fits. . .

The annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America is coming up next week in Denver, and with it that age-old...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 26, 2023

Coveted rarities

As regular blog readers know, I have a not-so-secret hankering for Jane Austen first editions, along with nothing like enough money to...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 21, 2023

Wallpapering

My husband, an aspiring rock god, owns a T-shirt reading, “How many guitars do I really need? Just one more.” Many Janeites harbor...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 14, 2023