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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

Mar 26, 2017

Jane Austen, trumped

For an American, a British spouse confers certain advantages. Your tea will always be expertly brewed. Your friends will find the accent...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 28, 2016

The Austen Catch-Up Project: Marrying Mr. Darcy

In Jane Austen’s novels, the quest for a suitable marriage partner is serious business. By law, Regency women surrendered most of their...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 22, 2014

It's in the cards

Just in time for Christmas, I’ve become aware of the existence of not one but two new-ish (less than two years old) Jane Austen-related...