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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

May 24, 2015

If your Mr. Right is Mr. Darcy

Was Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy always seen as the quintessential romantic icon, even in that misty prehistoric time known as B.C. (Before...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 5, 2015

Calling all Austen nerds

Given the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 18, 2015

Love letters and babies in bonnets

Okay, I admit I’m mostly linking this because I get a kick out of the baby-in-a-bonnet photo. But it’s also true that this coming...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 1, 2015

A Jane Austen year

Jane Austen isn't just everywhere; she's all the time. After a busy year celebrating Mansfield Park's two hundredth anniversary,...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 24, 2014

Games Janeites play

It hasn’t quite been Ten Days that Rocked the Jane Austen World, but this past week or so has brought us several memorable Janeite teapot...

Deborah Yaffe

May 21, 2014

Aux armes, citoyens!

We Janeites like to think of ourselves as a community whose shared enthusiasm transcends the artificiality of mere lines on a map,...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 30, 2013

Jane Austen's 2013

For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...