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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

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 2, 2023

A decade on

Ten years ago this weekend, I published my first blog post—the first of many, as it turned out. (Today’s entry is #1,049, if you’re...

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Oct 14, 2021

Listening in on Chawton House

Last summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...

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May 17, 2021

One hundred candles

Back in 2011, when the research for my book Among the Janeites took me on the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual tour of...

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Sep 4, 2016

Austen fights again

Six summers ago, a faux trailer for a non-existent film titled Jane Austen’s Fight Club went viral, with its hilarious juxtaposition of...

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Dec 30, 2013

Jane Austen's 2013

For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...

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Sep 22, 2013

The Dress

I spent this past week participating in a most enjoyable Group Read of Among the Janeites at the Republic of Pemberley (it's now...

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Sep 9, 2013

Letters about Jane

Keith Sharon, an old friend and colleague from our days at the Jersey City newspaper, mentions Among the Janeites in an Orange County...

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Feb 4, 2013

Anniversaries and explanations

January 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...