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...
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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
Nov 17, 2022
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
Dec 17, 2020
Eternal verities
Despite the strangeness of this year, some eternal verities remain. Snowflakes. Evergreens. Misquoting Jane Austen. A few highlights of...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 6, 2020
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
Aug 30, 2020
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
Apr 19, 2020
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
Jan 13, 2020
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
Dec 12, 2019
What would Jane Austen say?
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance,” I texted my husband. I was not providing dampening commentary on our nearly...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 31, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part II
As I have pointed out rather often, most recently earlier this week, the Internet is filled with quotes from filmed adaptations of Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 28, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part I
The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 30, 2019
Too darn hot
The dog days of summer are approaching, and perhaps that’s why the amount of Stupid Jane Austen Stuff coming my way seems to have ramped...
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