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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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On this day in 1814. . .
Seventy-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. “Write what you know,” aspiring authors are counseled in...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 18, 2022
On this day(ish) in 1814. . .
Seventy-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The letter-writing culture of Jane Austen’s day was...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 14, 2022
On this day in 1811. . .
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
On this day in 1801. . .
Seventy-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. How autobiographical is Jane Austen’s writing? Impossible...
Deborah Yaffe
May 12, 2022
On this day in 1805. . .
Seventy-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Leigh-Perrot, who was married to the older brother of...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 21, 2022
On this day in 1817. . .
Seventy-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters The letter that Jane Austen wrote to her 11-year-old niece...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 14, 2022
Women's letters, women's lives
Texts and emails have much to recommend them, but it’s hard not to wonder how much their prevalence will handicap future biographers....
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 24, 2022
On this day in 1813. . .
Seventy-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Exactly 209 years ago today, Jane Austen wrote a letter...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 17, 2022
On this day in 1801. . .
Seventy-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Moving out of one house and into another is a stressful,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 3, 2022
Saved!
Genuinely good news – a commodity that’s been in short supply this past year – came our way earlier this month, with the announcement...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 30, 2021
On this day in 1814. . .
Seventieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The author of Pride and Prejudice may have been an anonymous...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 6, 2021
On this day in 1798. . .
Sixty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Jane Austen’s nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, who wrote...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 25, 2021
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