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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

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 30, 2014

The Watsons in Winter: Merryn Williams

Merryn Williams’ completion of The Watsons, Jane Austen’s fragment of a novel, is a modest undertaking. With new material that runs only...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 27, 2014

The Watsons in Winter: Joan Aiken

Joan Aiken’s books were among the delights of my childhood – propulsive, plot-driven novels in the Gothic spirit of Victorian classics...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 23, 2014

The Watsons in Winter: David Hopkinson ("Another")

What is it with the extended Hubback clan? They just can’t seem to get enough of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons. The first person to...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 20, 2014

The Watsons in Winter: John Coates

Jane Austen was not perfect. Not every sentence that fell from her pen was a masterpiece; like all of us, she needed an editor’s eye from...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 16, 2014

The Watsons in Winter: Edith Hubback Brown

Less than two sentences into her preface, Edith Hubback Brown is already asserting her genetic right to complete Jane Austen’s fragment...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 13, 2014

The Watsons in Winter: L. Oulton

Catherine Hubback, the first person to try her hand at a completion of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons, is no longer an entirely...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 9, 2014

The Watsons in Winter: Catherine Hubback

The first-ever completion of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons – Catherine Hubback’s 1850 novel The Younger Sister, the subject of...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 6, 2014

The Watsons in Winter

The Watsons, the novel Jane Austen started and then abandoned on the cusp of her thirties, is a wintry book: not, perhaps, in its...