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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

Aug 30, 2017

The day is come

“At length the Day is come on which I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy,” the 20-year-old Jane Austen wrote to her sister in January...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 31, 2016

Pemberley survives, for now

Phew! After a near-death experience earlier this summer, the beloved Republic of Pemberley, the largest online Jane Austen fan site, has...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 14, 2016

Pemberley in peril

Two years ago, under intense financial pressure, the Republic of Pemberley, the largest online Jane Austen fan community, downsized to a...