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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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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 29, 2018
On this day in 1812. . .
Thirty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Talk about burying the lead. The letter that Jane Austen...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 15, 2018
Missing pieces
From time to time, you happen across a story that makes clear how entirely some people miss the point of Jane Austen. For instance, when...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28, 2018
Janeite Christmas at Hallmark
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. So perhaps the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 24, 2018
Mockingbird in a landslide
Can I get half credit? As blog readers will recall, last week I predicted (correctly, as it turned out) that Pride and Prejudice,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 17, 2018
The envelope, please. . .
When midnight strikes on the west coast tonight, something momentous will take place: Voting will close in PBS’s Great American Read...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 7, 2018
Unfinished business
Jane Austen’s books – usually Pride and Prejudice, sometimes Emma, occasionally one of the others -- perennially land on those...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 30, 2018
Mismatch
Jane Austen’s novels are filled with marital mismatches. Clever, sardonic Mr. Bennet treats Mrs. Bennet with thinly veiled disrespect. In...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 12, 2018
Sightings
One of the occupational hazards of Janeite life is a heightened sensitivity to every mention of Jane Austen, no matter the context....
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 29, 2018
P&P on the block
Once again, it’s time to play “If I Were a Rich Janeite.” (Cue klezmer music.) The British auctioneer Bonhams has announced that, later...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 1, 2018
International (mis)understanding
With their film adaptations and their fanfics and their Austen societies, residents of the Indian subcontinent seem to love Jane Austen...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 18, 2018
Tiara time again
It’s been almost four years since we had a reason to put “Jane Austen” and “beauty pageant” in the same sentence. Frankly, we were...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 24, 2018
Graphing the plot
Back in high school, I did reasonably well in math. I may have trouble balancing my checkbook these days, but I promise I’m not one of...
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