June - 2022

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

Feeding the beast

The appetite for Jane Austen-adjacent content never seems to flag, at least in the Anglophiliac precincts of PBS. If you ate up Season...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 30, 2022

During an overseas visit earlier this month, I was too swamped with family business to follow the news with my usual attention. This...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 27, 2022

When I was a kid, I – or perhaps my sister -- owned a novelty pen bearing an image of Botticelli’s Venus in a bathing suit. (Or was it a...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 23, 2022

Seven years ago, we learned that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall – aka the wife of Prince Charles and future queen consort of England – is a...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 20, 2022

One hundred and twenty-five years ago, as Britain’s Queen Victoria marked a milestone sixty years on the throne, the proprietors of...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 16, 2022

If you’re a Janeite who can’t make it to Cincinnati’s Taft Museum of Art this summer – and will therefore miss your chance for an...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 9, 2022

Seventy-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s novels famously contain few detailed...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 6, 2022

The zeitgeist is a peculiar thing. For decades – centuries, even – almost nobody makes a Pride and Prejudice update centered on same-sex...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 2, 2022