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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 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

Feb 22, 2021

Three weeks, three books (or is it four?)

Jane Austen sightings are like buses: Sometimes, you don’t get one for ages, and sometimes, they come in bunches. These last few weeks...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 8, 2016

Meme-ing of Jane

Janeite creativity, while most obvious in the groaning shelves of fanfiction based on Austen’s novels, isn’t confined to any one medium:...