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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 23, 2016

Color to win

When I was ten years old, or thereabouts, I won a coloring contest sponsored by the local bus company. Since my artistic ability was –...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 30, 2015

Quenching that insatiable desire

Sometimes a headline seems to speak directly to you, as if written not by an anonymous stranger but by a friend with intimate knowledge...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 15, 2014

Another Jane Austen Day

Tomorrow is December 16–for some, just another Tuesday in late fall; for others, Beethoven’s birthday; and for Janeites, of course, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 17, 2014

Nice or naff? You decide

“Fierce divisions have broken out among the Guardian books team as to whether this video, bringing a statue of Jane Austen to life, is...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 10, 2014

Another brick in the wall

Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 13, 2014

Waxing Jane

The biggest news in the Janeite world last week was the unveiling of a new waxwork of Our Jane at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath,...