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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 25, 2021

A Janeite goes home

A man whose love for Jane Austen helped sustain him during a brutal ten-month battle with COVID and its aftermath finally returned to his...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 16, 2020

A Janeite recovers

Earlier this summer, it looked like COVID would take the life of a seventy-three-year-old British lawyer named Geoff Woolf. During his...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 3, 2020

The Austen prescription

Jane Austen’s power to console during times of trauma is an established trope by now: cue mention of how British authorities prescribed...