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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
Feb 12, 2015
Fifty Shades of Jane
By now, you may have heard that the filmed adaptation of a pop-culture work with a legion of breathless fans is coming to a multiplex...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 13, 2014
Pemberley for sale
Ogling unattainable real estate is one of life’s great pleasures, and the mother of all real estate ogling is upon us now: Wentworth...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 10, 2014
Darcy the one-tenth-of-one-percenter
A fascinating column in a recent edition of the Financial Times’ FT Magazine uses the income data in Pride and Prejudice to illustrate a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 29, 2014
Trekkies in bonnets
Are Janeites just Trekkies in bonnets? We Austen fans are used to the Trekkie comparison, which often serves as a shorthand way to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 19, 2014
Must stop can't stop
I really should stop. Don’t torture myself, right? Just surrender my Jane Austen Critical Faculties license, turn in my Janeite Purist...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 10, 2014
Another brick in the wall
Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 13, 2014
Manga Lizzy
The Japanese seem to be fond of Jane Austen – there is a Jane Austen Society of Japan, a Japanese scholar spoke at one of the Jane Austen...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 15, 2014
Ready for Lizzy?
Janeites come in all political flavors, and I have no desire to split our cheerful community along partisan lines. But I hope we can all...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 11, 2014
Highlighting the highlighted
More fun with data! A bright young reporter decided to mine the little-known trove of info that is Amazon’s list of the passages most...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 28, 2014
JA makes the cut
A flurry of excitement in the British press over the release of new curricular guidelines for the UK’s English literature exams for high...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 14, 2014
Underwater Austen
Last week, the U.S. Navy and its tech partner announced plans to outfit submarines with a brand-new secure e-book reader called the NeRD...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 23, 2014
P&P & Quilts
Visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum, fondly known as Chawton Cottage, love to admire the patchwork quilt stitched by Austen, her...
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