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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

Mar 4, 2021

More name-dropping

The virtual ink had barely dried on my recent blog post about a questionable list of Jane Austen-themed names for baby boys when I...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 1, 2021

Name-dropping

It’s a well-established Janeite practice to name children and pets after Austen characters: while researching my book Among the Janeites,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 4, 2018

What's in a name?

Shakespeare’s ardent fans are called Bardolators, not Willcolytes. Dickens admirers are Dickensians, not Chuck-a-holics. Devotees of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 10, 2015

What's in a name?

I love names – perhaps because I’m terrible at faces, perhaps just because I’m a verbal person in all respects. Whatever the reason, I...