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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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The complete Hubback, at last
Great news for aficionados of Jane Austen fan fiction: the long-inaccessible third volume of The Younger Sister, by Austen’s niece...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 9, 2014
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Postscript to "The Watsons in Winter": Bless the Midwest!
The library gods are smiling upon us Janeites. As I reported in my recently completed Watsons in Winter blog series, Jane Austen’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 3, 2014
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Wrapping up The Watsons in Winter
“Each of us has a private Austen,” Karen Joy Fowler writes at the beginning of The Jane Austen Book Club, her 2004 novel about how...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 13, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: Jennifer Ready Bettiol
Some Jane Austen fanfiction is produced by professional writers with one eye on a potentially profitable market. But much Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 10, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: Eucharista Ward
Jane Austen’s life was steeped in religion. As the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she almost certainly believed in God, attended...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 6, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: Helen Baker
News flash: it’s hard to write like Jane Austen. I don’t just mean that it’s hard to emulate Austen’s diamond-bright sentences, with...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 3, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: Merryn Williams
Merryn Williams’ completion of The Watsons, Jane Austen’s fragment of a novel, is a modest undertaking. With new material that runs only...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 30, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: Joan Aiken
Joan Aiken’s books were among the delights of my childhood – propulsive, plot-driven novels in the Gothic spirit of Victorian classics...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 27, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: David Hopkinson ("Another")
What is it with the extended Hubback clan? They just can’t seem to get enough of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons. The first person to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 23, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: John Coates
Jane Austen was not perfect. Not every sentence that fell from her pen was a masterpiece; like all of us, she needed an editor’s eye from...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 20, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: Edith Hubback Brown
Less than two sentences into her preface, Edith Hubback Brown is already asserting her genetic right to complete Jane Austen’s fragment...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 16, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: L. Oulton
Catherine Hubback, the first person to try her hand at a completion of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons, is no longer an entirely...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 13, 2014
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