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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
Jul 9, 2014
My share in the conversation
The writer and blogger Sarah Emsley is two months into “An Invitation to Mansfield Park,” her year-long series of weekly guest posts...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 2, 2014
Strange business, indeed
Judging from the near-absence of any mention of our blessed land in the works of Jane Austen, it appears that our beloved author didn’t...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 29, 2014
Jane Austen, imagined friend
Yesterday’s New York Times Book Review ran an article by poet and critic Adam Kirsch responding to the question, “When we read fiction,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 22, 2014
Late arrival at the Janeite party
From time to time, it’s useful to recall that not everyone knows as much about Jane Austen as we Janeites do. Last week’s salutary...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 11, 2014
Highlighting the highlighted
More fun with data! A bright young reporter decided to mine the little-known trove of info that is Amazon’s list of the passages most...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 4, 2014
Comma-counting across the centuries
I’m a punctuation geek, I must admit. A fellow reporter on my college newspaper once claimed to have heard me declare, with a passion...
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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...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 7, 2014
Pop the champagne corks for Mansfield Park's 200th
Tomorrow is Mansfield Park’s two hundredth birthday, and what’s a birthday without a party? Our host is the writer and blogger Sarah...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 13, 2014
Pet Jane Austen Peeve #37: Quoting Out of Context
“Jane Austen said it best,” a blogger for the Christian Post asserts in a recent piece on Biblical approaches to friendship. " ‘There is...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 6, 2014
The Watsons in Winter
The Watsons, the novel Jane Austen started and then abandoned on the cusp of her thirties, is a wintry book: not, perhaps, in its...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 28, 2013
Giving thanks for Jane Austen
As a concept, gratitude is important to Jane Austen: Elizabeth feels it for Darcy when she learns what he's done for Lydia; Sir Thomas...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 7, 2013
Judging books by their covers
Not too long ago – OK, it was last month, but I only just noticed – New York magazine ran a feature on the runaway popularity of...
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