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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
May 24, 2017
Longbourn for sale
No one reads Pride and Prejudice and dreams of living at Longbourn. The Bennet family estate, much as Mr. Collins may praise it, is so...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 3, 2017
Jane Austen meets Texas debs
The year advances apace, and yet there still doesn’t seem to be a release date for the supposed-to-come-out-in-2017 film adaptation of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 9, 2017
Austen in toe shoes
Every time you think Jane Austen’s stories have been translated into every conceivable medium – not just the ubiquitous movies, but comic...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 27, 2017
Context is everything
Once or twice in the past, I have mentioned my aversion to lists of Jane Austen quotes – or mugs with Jane Austen quotes, or, indeed, any...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 20, 2017
Distinguishing marks
Back in my college days, when I was a pedantically obsessive copy editor on the student newspaper, a friend claimed to have overheard me...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 13, 2017
Dweeby Darcy
Edward IV, who reigned as king of England for most of the period from 1461-1483, was described by contemporaries as an unusually handsome...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 12, 2017
Jane Austen, citizen of the world (Part II)
These days, the quintessentially English Jane Austen is, as I recently found occasion to note, a citizen of the world. And she seems to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 26, 2016
Big eyes, bigger emotions
By now, it’s hardly news that Jane Austen’s stories have inspired adaptations in every conceivable genre and medium: zombie mashup, radio...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 25, 2016
Augmented Janeite reality
Tumblr is a social media platform that I simply do not understand, at least not yet. Luckily, I have a teenage daughter. And she sends me...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 21, 2016
Janeite demigod turns 80
Screenwriter Andrew Davies, who turned 80 this past Tuesday, is a Janeite demigod, the man who brought us not only the beloved 1995...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 27, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jane Juska
Let us stipulate that Mrs. Bennet draws the short straw. Her clever, ironic husband treats her with thinly disguised disrespect. Her...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 15, 2016
Crafting time
Today’s edition of Jane Austen Craft Projects I Wish I Had Time For features a charming cross-stitch kit based on one of C.E. Brock’s...
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