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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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Keeping up with the Kambridges
Trendy fashion accessories come and go. One year, it’s thigh-high red boots and black berets; the next it’s purple shoes and tiny...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 1, 2020
Attic treasures
To read the news these days, you’d think that attics across the world were bursting with the previously unsuspected memorabilia of famous...
Deborah Yaffe
May 15, 2019
Another bicentenary girl
Back when I was in elementary school, ranking one’s friends – best friend, second-best friend, third-best friend – was a popular pastime....
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 4, 2019
Mockingbird in a landslide
Can I get half credit? As blog readers will recall, last week I predicted (correctly, as it turned out) that Pride and Prejudice,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 24, 2018
The envelope, please. . .
When midnight strikes on the west coast tonight, something momentous will take place: Voting will close in PBS’s Great American Read...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 17, 2018
On this day in 1813. . .
Thirty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Some writers fill their letters with detailed responses to...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 10, 2018
On this day in 1813. . .
Thirty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen never lived alone. From her earliest days,...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 23, 2018
Collecting the uncollected
Fifteen years ago, Silicon Valley gazillionaire and Janeite Sandy Lerner opened Chawton House, a research library dedicated to the...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2018
Excellent women novelists
Jane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, as all good Janeites know, but it’s another prominent medieval English church that will...
Deborah Yaffe
May 30, 2018
On this day in 1814. . .
Thirty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Two centuries ago, Jane Austen had spent her day...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 8, 2018
Women writers, popping up
In your average general-interest bookshop, a majority of the titles have probably been authored by men. No surprise there – historically,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 5, 2018
On the trail of great writers
Logically, there’s no particular reason we dedicated readers should yearn to visit the houses where our favorite writers were born, grew...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 9, 2017
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