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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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In for a penny. . .
Penny Ashton is a New Zealand actor and comedian who has created two Jane Austen-inspired shows: the one-woman Promise & Promiscuity , ...
Deborah Yaffe
4 days ago
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Delayed snark
Some five years ago, my local chapter of the Jane Austen Society of North America sponsored a discussion of Jane Austen at Home , the...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 17
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Clearing the backlog
It’s been a grand total of four weeks since I last reported on Jane Austen-related misinformation/foolishness on the internet. And...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 24
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The year's last snark
It’s always tempting to gorge on soon-to-be-forbidden foods in the days before starting a diet. Similarly, as New Year’s Resolution time...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 30, 2024
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Sourcing and citation
Earlier this month, a man from the Maryland suburbs sent a letter to the Washington Post . “When I was reading Colbert I. King’s July 29...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 24, 2023
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Not so timeless
As regular blog readers know, among my favorite pastimes is mocking the internet for its habit of attributing quotations from screen...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 17, 2022
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Puzzled
I love jigsaw puzzles. So much so that I only occasionally dare to start one, lest my addiction/obsession eat up every waking hour until...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 18, 2021
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Eternal verities
Despite the strangeness of this year, some eternal verities remain. Snowflakes. Evergreens. Misquoting Jane Austen. A few highlights of...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 17, 2020
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Giving credit where credit is due
Those of us who set ourselves up as arbiters of correctness in matters of Jane Austen quotation never run short of opportunities to...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 7, 2020
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Mutton and rhubarb
Jane Austen seems to have spent as little time as possible in the kitchen, leaving the cooking to the women she lived with and the...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 31, 2020
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From museum to house
Two years ago, Chawton House Library – a research center for the study of early English writing by women, located in an Elizabethan...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 20, 2020
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Bewitching
Search engine optimization and web analytics are topics about which I know very little. (OK: nothing.) So when Google sends me its...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 13, 2020
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