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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

Jun 12, 2019

Travelin' on

Two years ago, Dutch journalist Karin Quint ran an admirably efficient Kickstarter campaign that ultimately raised more than $17,000 to...

Dec 12, 2016

Miss Bates, vindicated

Miss Bates has an optimistic outlook on life (“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do”) but not...

Nov 17, 2016

Travels in translation

Jane Austen’s novels are filled with tourism: think Catherine Morland in Bath, Elizabeth Bennet in Derbyshire, the Dashwood sisters in...

May 29, 2016

The Austen Catch-Up Project: Roy and Lesley Adkins

The 2007 movie of Karen Joy Fowler’s novel The Jane Austen Book Club opens with a montage designed to evoke the noise, stress and...