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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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'Twas the night before Christmas
Tomorrow is Christmas, the day on which a larger-than-life personage employing semi-equine transport suddenly appears in our homes,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 24, 2018
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On this day in 1816. . .
Fortieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s not always easy to tell when Jane Austen, master of irony,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 17, 2018
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Desperately seeking romance in Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf famously wrote of Jane Austen that “of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” Let...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 13, 2018
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On this day in 1812. . .
Thirty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Talk about burying the lead. The letter that Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 29, 2018
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Saint Charlotte
Thanksgiving Day may seem to be a holiday with no connection whatsoever to the works of Jane Austen. True, her major novels include the...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 22, 2018
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A really accomplished young computer
Jane Austen’s novels have provided the inspiration for any number of musical treatments, from operas and a classical instrumental suite...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 19, 2018
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Mockingbird in a landslide
Can I get half credit? As blog readers will recall, last week I predicted (correctly, as it turned out) that Pride and Prejudice,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 25, 2018
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The envelope, please. . .
When midnight strikes on the west coast tonight, something momentous will take place: Voting will close in PBS’s Great American Read...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 18, 2018
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Unfinished business
Jane Austen’s books – usually Pride and Prejudice, sometimes Emma, occasionally one of the others -- perennially land on those...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 8, 2018
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P&P on the block
Once again, it’s time to play “If I Were a Rich Janeite.” (Cue klezmer music.) The British auctioneer Bonhams has announced that, later...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 30, 2018
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Retracing Louisa's steps
Jane Austen’s characters and situations feel so real to us that it’s easy to overlook the fact that many of her stories are set in...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 27, 2018
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On this day in 1809. . .
Thirty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters As a novelist, Jane Austen was one of the greatest writers...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 26, 2018
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