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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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Jane Austen's fingerprints
In these days of standardized computer fonts and software-assisted editing, one writer’s manuscript probably looks much like another’s....
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2024
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Goodbye at last, 2020
A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 31, 2020
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The Watsons, reborn
Among the Janeite casualties of pandemic lockdown was the planned West End production of The Watsons, Laura Wade’s much-praised...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 6, 2020
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On and off
For those of us who love our Jane Austen adaptations, the coronavirus quarantine has been the best of times and the worst of times. The...
Deborah Yaffe
May 7, 2020
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Eighty years on
The year that began yesterday will not bring us any important Jane Austen anniversaries: The bicentenaries of her death and of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2, 2020
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Fragments of news, news about fragments
The Janeite word of the moment, it would appear, is “fragment.” * Last week, Jane Austen’s House Museum launched an urgent appeal for...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 27, 2019
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The Watsons on stage
The Watsons -- the novel Jane Austen began, probably in 1804, but never finished -- is a fascinating fragment. It’s bleak and wintry,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 15, 2018
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The complete Hubback, at last
Great news for aficionados of Jane Austen fan fiction: the long-inaccessible third volume of The Younger Sister, by Austen’s niece...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 9, 2014
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Postscript to "The Watsons in Winter": Bless the Midwest!
The library gods are smiling upon us Janeites. As I reported in my recently completed Watsons in Winter blog series, Jane Austen’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 3, 2014
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Wrapping up The Watsons in Winter
“Each of us has a private Austen,” Karen Joy Fowler writes at the beginning of The Jane Austen Book Club, her 2004 novel about how...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 13, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: Jennifer Ready Bettiol
Some Jane Austen fanfiction is produced by professional writers with one eye on a potentially profitable market. But much Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 10, 2014
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The Watsons in Winter: Eucharista Ward
Jane Austen’s life was steeped in religion. As the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she almost certainly believed in God, attended...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 6, 2014
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