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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

Nov 28, 2022

Regency reality

For some Janeites, fandom entails an intense engagement with the material details of Austen’s world. These Janeites are the people who...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 25, 2021

Jane Austen in the age of Zoom

A year ago, I was looking forward to my upcoming appearance at Jane Austen Day, a biannual event sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 27, 2020

Jane Austen in Bath, virtually

Had 2020 not been so – well, 2020-ish – throngs of happy Janeites from across the globe would have staggered home earlier this month from...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 19, 2020

Dining out

I don’t know about you, but I miss dinner parties. You remember dinner parties: those occasions on which you gathered with friends –...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 8, 2020

Happy birthday, JAS

A thousand years ago – or, actually, back in January – the big Janeite news of 2020 was shaping up to be the eightieth anniversary of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 2, 2020

Eighty years on

The year that began yesterday will not bring us any important Jane Austen anniversaries: The bicentenaries of her death and of the...

Deborah Yaffe

May 30, 2018

Excellent women novelists

Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, as all good Janeites know, but it’s another prominent medieval English church that will...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 30, 2017

Jane lies in Winchester

Now that this Austen bicentenary year is in full swing, the announcements of commemorative events pegged to the July 18 anniversary of...