Department of weird
We Janeites like to say that our favorite author is everywhere, but some days you just can’t believe where she turns up. An informative...
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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
Jan 15, 2015
Unbelievable Austen truths
You may think that Jane Austen’s father was George Austen, a clergyman who headed a parish in rural England. But apparently you would be...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 24, 2014
Games Janeites play
It hasn’t quite been Ten Days that Rocked the Jane Austen World, but this past week or so has brought us several memorable Janeite teapot...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 14, 2014
Jane votes yes
We Janeites are used to seeing Our Author co-opted by partisans across the politico-cultural spectrum: depending on who’s talking, she’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 7, 2014
Another Jane Austen sighting
My Jane Austen Google alert this weekend pointed me to this alluring yet unsatisfactory story in the Halstead Gazette, which covers the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 1, 2014
Looking for love Down Under
And you thought Jane Austen was dead. But no – she’s on the prowl for a mate, or at least a date. And she’s “an optimistic family...
Deborah Yaffe
May 28, 2014
JA makes the cut
A flurry of excitement in the British press over the release of new curricular guidelines for the UK’s English literature exams for high...
Deborah Yaffe
May 14, 2014
Underwater Austen
Last week, the U.S. Navy and its tech partner announced plans to outfit submarines with a brand-new secure e-book reader called the NeRD...
Deborah Yaffe
May 11, 2014
Meet me at the corner of Austen and Brontë
It’s true that I have no plans to move to Iowa. It’s true that I don’t really like sprawling five-bedroom houses in subdivisions so new...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 16, 2014
Wearing Jane
Maybe it’s just me, but when I clicked this link, which came to me via my “Jane Austen” Google alert, I laughed out loud: See, I read the...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 9, 2014
Win big by reading Jane Austen
She’s a brilliant prose stylist, a peerless satirist, the creator of indelible characters. Yeah, yeah, but it turns out that the real...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 2, 2014
How to write like Austen
Jane Austen’s writing routine: a model for us all? Apparently so, according to a new-ish book mentioned in a recent Harvard Business...
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