Misquotation 3/3

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

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 7, 2015

Short or long, but not by Austen

As a newspaper reporter many years ago, I heard New Jersey’s then-commissioner of education give a speech featuring a self-deprecating...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 16, 2015

See, this is why it’s a problem -- as I’ve written so many, many times before (for instance: here, here and here) – that the Internet is...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 4, 2015

Those of you who’ve been reading this blog for awhile may stop here. You’ve heard what I’m going to say: They’re misquoting Jane Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 2, 2015

Another year, another round of Let’s Misquote Jane Austen. Back in October, the last time I was overcome by irritation at the general...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 19, 2014

I really should stop. Don’t torture myself, right? Just surrender my Jane Austen Critical Faculties license, turn in my Janeite Purist...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 10, 2014

Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 24, 2014

I suppose I should just stop banging my head against the same old brick wall. But really: if you’re going to go to the trouble of...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 13, 2014

“Jane Austen said it best,” a blogger for the Christian Post asserts in a recent piece on Biblical approaches to friendship. " ‘There is...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 19, 2013

Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...