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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
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Model city
Now this is a community event I can get behind. Over the weekend of January 10-12, the city of Modesto in California’s Central Valley is...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 30, 2019
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Greatest Hits, Part I
The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 2019
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Too darn hot
The dog days of summer are approaching, and perhaps that’s why the amount of Stupid Jane Austen Stuff coming my way seems to have ramped...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 1, 2019
Jane Austen Purim
Today is Purim, the Jewish version of Mardi Gras, on which we eat a big meal, dress in silly costumes, read the Biblical book of Esther,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 21, 2019
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Nineteen
Nineteen is a number much on our collective minds today, as we prepare to usher in 2019, the last year of the second decade of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 31, 2018
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International (mis)understanding
With their film adaptations and their fanfics and their Austen societies, residents of the Indian subcontinent seem to love Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 2, 2018
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On this day in 1814. . .
Thirty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Two centuries ago, Jane Austen had spent her day...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 8, 2018
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Christmas tranquility and tedium at Mansfield Park
For those of us with school-age children, Christmas week provides a delightful break from the rhythms of the academic calendar: No rising...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 25, 2017
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More pictures of Fanny
Earlier this month, Janeites were delighted when the Folio Society publishers and the House of Illustration, a London gallery devoted to...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 16, 2017
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Pictures of Fanny
Those of us who first encountered Jane Austen on the page of a book without illustrations -- rather than on a movie screen -- probably...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 2, 2017
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On this day in 1801. . .
Thirteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Finding biographical resonances in Jane Austen’s writing is a...
Deborah Yaffe
May 26, 2016
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Setting Mansfield Park to music
The ordinary happiness and quiet heartbreak of Jane Austen's novels hardly seem to fit the melodramatic template of so many grand operas,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 17, 2016
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