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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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Few expressions of Janeite commitment are as permanent -- not to mention as painful -- as the Jane Austen tattoo. Therefore, I’d have...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 21, 2019
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P&P on the block
Once again, it’s time to play “If I Were a Rich Janeite.” (Cue klezmer music.) The British auctioneer Bonhams has announced that, later...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 30, 2018
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Washing up
Do Jane Austen’s characters keep bars of soap handy for washing? This is one of the many details of Regency life that Austen does not...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 1, 2018
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Minting money from the Austen tenner
The Jane Austen £10 note has been circulating for only four months, but already its most collectible iterations are fetching inflated...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 18, 2018
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Serial-number currency
When is $13 worth $9,410? When it’s embodied in a low-serial-number Jane Austen banknote, apparently. Last week, the Bank of England...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 9, 2017
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Haute couture juvenilia
Collecting copies of Jane Austen’s books is a popular Janeite pastime. The wealthy seek out rare and valuable first editions. The...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 4, 2017
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Book covers
Jane Austen and sex: By now, you’ve heard all the arguments. 1. She’s a sex-free zone, where female modesty and male decorum are prized...
Deborah Yaffe
May 8, 2017
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Signing for Jane
Heaven knows there is plenty of weird Jane Austen merchandise out there. (Though I’m not sure anyone has yet topped the Austen book cover...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 13, 2017
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Weaving Austen-fabric
Regular blog readers will recall that I find the very concept of “Jane Austen-inspired” smells, flavors, and visuals – as in Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 23, 2017
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Floor-to-ceiling Austen
The curators of Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton are hard at work freshening the place up for this year’s commemoration of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2017
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Context is everything
Once or twice in the past, I have mentioned my aversion to lists of Jane Austen quotes – or mugs with Jane Austen quotes, or, indeed, any...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 27, 2017
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More pictures of Fanny
Earlier this month, Janeites were delighted when the Folio Society publishers and the House of Illustration, a London gallery devoted to...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 16, 2017
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