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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 19, 2023

Jane Austen's desk, online

The Jane Austen Summer Program, whose four-day symposium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, combines academic study of Austen with...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 11, 2021

Austen and Asia

Last year, as George Floyd’s murder sparked a racial reckoning around the globe, the public humanities collaborative Jane Austen & Co....

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 17, 2021

In the green room

It’s a funny time right now for us theater-loving Janeites: Some of our favorite things are still virtual, others are on their way back...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 11, 2021

Old issues, new questions

Five years ago, I wrote a magazine article about the controversy over Woodrow Wilson’s repugnant racial views – an aspect of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 21, 2020

The Jane Austen Guide to Quarantine

For many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...