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Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 15
Broadening the collection
The last time the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft was the subject of a public fundraising effort, the results were...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 13
Recommended reading
To Janeites – indeed, to anyone who’s read semi-widely and who isn’t V.S. Naipaul – it’s obvious that women are capable of writing great...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 28
Under the floorboards
When I was a little girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse. I liked setting up tiny roomscapes filled with detailed, perfectly manageable...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 11
Revising the syllabus
Is Jane Austen an essential author? Must all English majors – all readers, even! – get to know her work before they can count themselves...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 24
Pride and penitentiary
The white supremacist sympathizer assigned to read Pride and Prejudice will now have enough time to get through all six of Jane Austen’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 9, 2021
Crunch time
Kids! Always leaving their homework to the last minute! Last summer, as blog readers will recall, a British judge sentenced a young man...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 6, 2021
Required reading
Last week, a British judge imposed an unusual sentence on a young man convicted of possessing terrorism-related materials. "Have you read...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 7, 2021
Recovering a literary Holy Grail
It’s been more than three years since a trio of passionate Janeites formed the Godmersham Lost Sheep Society (GLOSS), an organization...