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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 29

Stocking stuffer

What do you get for the Janeite who has everything? You’d think it would be easy to buy for people whose fandom has spawned an ocean of...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 4, 2022

What lies beneath

In popular culture, Jane Austen is the avatar of buttoned-up romance – love stories featuring heroines concealed under long skirts and...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 24, 2020

Emma fashionista

The new feature-film adaptation of Emma opened this past weekend, but not, alas, in my neck of the woods, where we proles must wait until...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 27, 2019

Promising news about Emma

The upcoming big-screen adaptation of Emma has acquired a complete cast list, and for those of us who delight in fine British character...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 31, 2018

Never too much Jane

Sometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...