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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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Pricey, and priceless
It’s always nice to know that other people value Our Jane the way we do. Like, value her in dollars. Last week, as blog readers will...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 20, 2021
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Austens with a pedigree
Owning first editions of Jane Austen’s novels – ideally, as I’ve noted before, of all Jane Austen’s novels – must be . . . pretty cool....
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 13, 2021
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Raising Jane(ites)
Long ago, I danced at a JASNA ball with a twelve-year-old girl who, when I asked if she was a Janeite, told me that she had “been raised...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2021
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On this day in 1814. . .
Sixty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. No author – not even Jane Austen -- is immune to the charm...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 14, 2021
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Data storage, the Jane Austen way
Anyone whose college papers reside on now-unreadable floppy disks has probably wondered whether the human race is on the brink of an...
Deborah Yaffe
May 13, 2021
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Interrogating an interrogation
Among my many Janeite pet peeves is the caricaturing of Austen fans as prudish ultraconservatives who stick their fingers in their ears...
Deborah Yaffe
May 6, 2021
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Cross-channel connections
Jane Austen is usually thought of as a quintessentially English writer, what with all those landed estates, rural rectories, and mannerly...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 15, 2021
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On this day in 1816. . .
Sixty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. From time to time, you will hear writers claim that they...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 1, 2021
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Sauce for the goose
Like many of us in the Age of COVID, I’ll be hosting an unusually small Thanksgiving party tonight – just the four members of my...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 26, 2020
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On this day in 1815. . .
Fifty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Although Jane Austen was a professional writer who spent six...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 23, 2020
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Another chance at completion
Less than a year ago, a rich person with excellent taste snapped up a complete set of Jane Austen first editions at a New York auction....
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 12, 2020
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Pandemic project
Back in March, a trio of young British academics decided to counteract the loneliness and isolation of lockdown by producing a series of...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 22, 2020
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