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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

Jan 29

Kiddie lit

Back when I was young and stupid, I didn’t think much of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, the short sketches and fragments she wrote between the...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 6, 2023

Writing women

As a writer who is also a fan of period drama, I pay attention to the screenwriting credits on my favorite literary-minded TV...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 24, 2022

Women's letters, women's lives

Texts and emails have much to recommend them, but it’s hard not to wonder how much their prevalence will handicap future biographers....

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 28, 2021

Boo!

It’s the scary season – ghosts, witches, creaking doors in haunted houses. For Janeites, however, the Internet’s frightening capacity to...

Deborah Yaffe

May 15, 2019

Attic treasures

To read the news these days, you’d think that attics across the world were bursting with the previously unsuspected memorabilia of famous...

Deborah Yaffe

May 30, 2018

Excellent women novelists

Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, as all good Janeites know, but it’s another prominent medieval English church that will...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 16, 2013

Jane Austen, Jane Eyre. Whatever.

I love it when things like this* turn up in my daily Google alert for "Jane Austen": "Apparently every generation needs its own version...