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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

Apr 11

Not so historical

Jane Austen’s novels make it onto a lot of best-of lists, and I am usually happy when they do. But not last month, when both Pride and...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 11, 2019

Riding high

By now, Jane Austen has made so many top-novel lists that it’s hard to come up with anything new to say when she makes yet another one....

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 25, 2019

Bewitched

Among Janeites, the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice is . . . controversial. Purists, especially those old enough to have seen an...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 12, 2018

Lucky thirteen

Name the ten most important vegetables! Quick now! Does broccoli outrank kale? How about carrots vs. turnips? Yes, yes, I know they’re...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 30, 2015

The women we love (or love to hate)

Another day, another artificially constructed list of literary favorites on which Jane Austen ranks high. Today’s entry is the “Top 15 of...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 16, 2015

Austen tops another list

It’s always pleasant when Jane Austen makes another greatest-novels-of-all-time list, so we Janeites can’t help but cheer that, as the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 20, 2014

Austen tops another list

The UK’s Independent newspaper just asked one hundred people working in the arts – writers, publishers, actors, directors – to pick their...