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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
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 7, 2024
On this day in 1808. . .
Ninety-sixth in an occasional series  of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Janeites do not always take Jane Austen at her word when it...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 18, 2024
What remains
Two hundred and seven years ago today, Jane Austen died in Winchester, England, at the age of forty-one. It’s easy to forget how...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 24, 2023
On this day in 1806. . .
Eighty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. I’ve noted before that, as a poet, Jane Austen was a great...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 16, 2021
On this day in 1813. . .
Sixty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Nostalgia for Jane Austen’s era has always struck me as...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 20, 2020
On this day in 1817. . .
Fifty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s no secret that Jane Austen held a jaundiced view of the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 24, 2019
On this day in 1817. . .
Forty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Those of us who feel strongly about books sometimes subject...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 17, 2019
Family album
The Janeite world is a-twitter (and a-Twitter) this week over the serendipitous discovery of a Victorian photo album filled with pictures...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 30, 2017
Provender, Austen, and the tsar
Pity the poor aristocrat. Your stately home is decaying, your heating bill is through the (leaky) roof, and you lack the millions...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 20, 2017
On this day in 1814. . .
Twenty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only six of Jane Austen’s letters to her oldest niece,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 12, 2017
On this day in 1817. . .
Twenty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen: realist or romantic? Cynic or softie? You’ll...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 30, 2015
On this day in 1814. . .
Ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. We know so little of Jane Austen’s views on nearly everything that...
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