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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 21, 2021

Game over

About eight years ago, a software engineer named Judy L. Tyrer raised more than $100,000 on Kickstarter to develop a Jane Austen-themed...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 22, 2020

To the manor born

It’s no secret that many Jane Austen screen adaptations owe their popularity in part to the appeal of their detailed period costumes and...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 25, 2018

Playing for keeps

Despite my near-total lack of interest in video games, I am always happy to hear of another game-creator developing an Austen-themed...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 11, 2013

Gaming Jane Austen

I’m not a video gamer. While I love games – I have fond childhood memories of cutthroat family Monopoly matches and drawn-out Boggle...