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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
Jul 29, 2015
Malice and malware
The big Jane Austen news this week: the evil, soulless folks who get their jollies – and their profits – by infecting your computer with...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 15, 2015
The Austen Fiasco?
Halfway to the finish line, the Austen Project is looking increasingly like the Austen Fiasco. The Austen Project, as you may recall, is...
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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 24, 2014
Pet Austen Peeve #83: Movie Quotes Aren't Book Quotes
I suppose I should just stop banging my head against the same old brick wall. But really: if you’re going to go to the trouble of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 4, 2014
Comma-counting across the centuries
I’m a punctuation geek, I must admit. A fellow reporter on my college newspaper once claimed to have heard me declare, with a passion...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 30, 2014
Austen on the (Indian) small screen
More international Jane Austen: an Indian TV channel is launching a show “based loosely” on Sense and Sensibility. (Not to be confused, I...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 19, 2013
Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen books
Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 27, 2013
Dissed by the Austen Project
Joanna Trollope’s modern-dress adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the first in a planned series of six Austen updates by popular...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 18, 2013
Hey Jane
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular novel. It’s the one that gets assigned in high school, makes the top-novels-of-all-time...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 26, 2013
Sex in Jane Austen
The British novelist Howard Jacobson has done us all a service by pointing out the sex in Jane Austen. Not the obvious but offstage sex:...
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