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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

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 15, 2018

Emma, the (latest) musical

Good news for those of us who can never get enough Jane Austen adaptations: Apparently, theater professionals in London and New York are...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 9, 2016

Austen tunes

We’ve had Jane Austen musicals, Jane Austen operas, and databases of the music that Jane Austen herself played. And now comes word that a...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 26, 2016

Austen's simple old songs

Like her characters Marianne Dashwood and Jane Fairfax, Jane Austen was, we are told, a committed amateur pianist. “In her youth she had...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 16, 2016

Setting Mansfield Park to music

The ordinary happiness and quiet heartbreak of Jane Austen's novels hardly seem to fit the melodramatic template of so many grand operas,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 19, 2015

Austen-era keyboarding

It’s probably impossible for us twenty-first-century folk, with our high-tech communications, advanced medical care and expansive notions...