Janeite on the Potomac, Part II
Bipartisanship is sadly rare in Washington these days, so it’s refreshing to find one instance of agreement across the aisle, even in...
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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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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 15, 2019
Pictures at an exhibition
Is Michelle Obama a Janeite? As far as I’m aware, no documentation exists to settle the question either way. But circumstantial evidence...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 1, 2019
A Janeite in STEM
All the talk these days about the decline of the humanities can be pretty depressing for us English-major types, who persist in believing...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 25, 2019
Color-coordinated Austen
It’s been clear for a while now that Jane Austen has evolved from revered writer into lifestyle brand: FamousJane, bringing you Classy...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 18, 2019
Janeite on the Potomac
In the most famous passage of perhaps the most famous essay ever written about Jane Austen, the psychologist and literary critic D.W....
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 7, 2019
Popping the question
According to my parents, one of the most important promises they made to each other upon their marriage was this one: no surprise...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2019
Beach reading
It’s always encouraging when excellent contemporary writers turn out to have great taste in literature (i.e., taste that agrees with my...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 9, 2019
Influences
“Can a book change the course of your life?” asks the cover headline on the latest issue of my college alumni magazine. Inside, seventeen...
Deborah Yaffe
May 19, 2019
Mistakes, misquotes, misunderstandings
Today on “Making Fun of the Internet,” a roundup of the latest Jane Austen-related stupid stuff that has crossed my cyber-transom...
Deborah Yaffe
May 5, 2019
Keeping up with the Jameses
Some weeks, the Austen-related news tidbits that come my way are scattered and disparate, lacking any unifying theme. And then there’s...
Deborah Yaffe
May 1, 2019
Talking with Britain's most-photographed man
When I visited the Jane Austen Centre in Bath, England, in July 2011, Martin Salter had the day off. At the time, I didn’t know what I...
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