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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

Sep 28, 2014

Austen schooling

Admittedly, the only connection between the author Jane Austen and England’s new Jane Austen College is the name. But I’m so charmed by...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 16, 2014

Wearing Jane

Maybe it’s just me, but when I clicked this link, which came to me via my “Jane Austen” Google alert, I laughed out loud: See, I read the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 5, 2013

Jane Austen and homework

It’s ironic that the British charter school in the news this week for its plans to abolish homework is named after Jane Austen. Austen’s...