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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

Dec 28, 2023

On this day in 1808. . .

Ninetieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen had six brothers, but one of them—George, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 30, 2023

Tom Lefroy, commitment-phobe?

Consider the term “fuckboy”: --“A womanizer; a young man who sleeps with women without any intention of having a relationship with them ....

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 22, 2020

Restraint

I like to think that I do not “rant” about Jane Austen-related error. I merely point it out, in a snarky yet restrained way. At times, it...

Deborah Yaffe

May 12, 2019

Busting Austen myths

Most Janeites don’t need to hear, yet again, that Jane Austen was not a kindly maiden aunt whose sweet, insubstantial little romance...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 10, 2019

A tourist in Bath

Last Thursday, James McAvoy, the excellent Scottish actor who played Jane Austen’s crush Tom Lefroy in the 2007 film Becoming Jane, paid...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 19, 2015

That sinking feeling

“Jane Austen fans rejoice,” commands the Hollywood business website The Tracking Board. “Voltage Pictures is moving forward with a new...