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Journalist and author
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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She plays well at the palace
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
Love means never having to say you're sorry
When I was growing up in 1970s and -80s heartland America, my taste for classic literature, including Jane Austen, made me . . . well, I...
Deborah Yaffe
May 16, 2022
Jane Austen, elixir of youth?
Last year, an Australian octogenarian named Ruth Wilson made headlines when she completed a doctoral degree on Jane Austen and the...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 18, 2022
One of Us
For a long time, we have known that at least one* Janeite lives barely a heartbeat away from the British throne: Seven years ago,...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 14, 2022
A newly planted Austen society
Like a Janeite version of Johnny Appleseed, the British-Pakistani journalist and writer Laaleen Sukhera seems to be making a habit of...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 31, 2022
CryptoJane
Back in 2013, when the Bank of England announced that Jane Austen would be the face of the £10 note, little did we know that less than a...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 3, 2022
Janeite on a sled
The unholy spectacle of a Russian coach berating a fifteen-year-old figure skater after an epic public fail shadowed by a doping scandal...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 28, 2022
With friends like these. . .
For the most part, I love my fellow Janeites. By and large, we are a smart, thoughtful bunch who, whatever our political, temperamental,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 13, 2022
Raising Jane(ites)
Long ago, I danced at a JASNA ball with a twelve-year-old girl who, when I asked if she was a Janeite, told me that she had “been raised...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2021
A Janeite passes on
Two months ago, I noted a Janeite milestone: the one hundredth birthday of Helen Lefroy, a dedicated Janeite with a familial link to Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 19, 2021
A poet of the ordinary
A poet whose work I didn’t know died the other day. Stephen Dunn was a Pulitzer Prize winner who “specialized in poems about surviving,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 8, 2021
One hundred candles
Back in 2011, when the research for my book Among the Janeites took me on the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual tour of...
Deborah Yaffe
May 17, 2021
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