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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 the first day of Mr. Darcy. . .
As a good (well, semi-good) Jewish girl, I’ve never owned an Advent calendar. The closest I ever came was in childhood, when we’d visit...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 4, 2014
Austen first impressions
Margaret C. Sullivan*, known for the past decade as the editrix of AustenBlog, picked her first Jane Austen paperback off a drugstore’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 20, 2014
Another brick in the wall
Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 10, 2014
Wearable books
How often do you get the chance to celebrate books, donate to a good cause and acquire a cool T-shirt – all at once? Not often, am I...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 17, 2014
Wha--?
I love for people to find inspiration in Jane Austen. Really, I do. But from time to time, I look at something allegedly inspired by...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 23, 2014
Secret drinking with Jane Austen
The Jane Austen Action Figure is old hat. The Jane Austen coffee mugs and fridge magnets are routine. By now, we’re even accustomed to...
Deborah Yaffe
May 18, 2014
Wearing Jane
Maybe it’s just me, but when I clicked this link, which came to me via my “Jane Austen” Google alert, I laughed out loud: See, I read the...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 16, 2014
Jane Austen's 2013
For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 30, 2013
Skin-deep Austen-love
The Janeite Meme of the Week title goes to these elegant and hilarious Jane Austen temporary tattoos – so popular, it appears, that...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 21, 2013
Judging books by their covers
Not too long ago – OK, it was last month, but I only just noticed – New York magazine ran a feature on the runaway popularity of...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 7, 2013
Anniversaries and explanations
January 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 4, 2013
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