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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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Approved
It’s coming up on chain-yourself-to-the-bulldozers time for the vocal—but possibly small—band of folks opposed to the erection of a Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 12, 2024
Woman of Winchester
Dust off those selfie sticks, Janeites: Winchester Cathedral is moving ahead with its controversial plan to place a statue of Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 1, 2024
A stitch in time
The complaints about Winchester Cathedral’s proposed Jane Austen statue have quieted down lately, or so I conclude from the silence of my...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 25, 2024
Endangered Dolphin, Part II
The moral seems clear: Bonnets are no match for the brutal imperatives of capitalism. It’s been five months since the owners of a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 15, 2024
Making it up as you go along
I love the way the internet just makes stuff up. Kidding! I hate the way the internet just makes stuff up—not least when the stuff it...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 24, 2024
Endangered Dolphin
In December 1793, during a visit to cousins in the Hampshire city of Southampton, the soon-to-turn-eighteen-year-old Jane Austen danced...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 20, 2024
Wondering about Alice
Chawton House, the Elizabethan mansion once owned by Jane Austen’s older brother Edward, has worked hard to transform itself from a...
Deborah Yaffe
May 27, 2024
Embroidering Chawton
The last time I completed a significant piece of needlework (see below) was during the early months of pandemic quarantine, when being...
Deborah Yaffe
May 2, 2024
Not In Jane's Backyard, Part II
Jane Austen died without finishing Sanditon , her novel about a developer trying to turn a sleepy small town into a bustling seaside...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 15, 2024
Statue wars
The controversy over Winchester Cathedral’s proposed Jane Austen statue is truly the gift that keeps on giving, at least for those of us...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 4, 2024
Questionable inspiration?
It’s always sad when a fire severely damages a family home, and even more so when the building itself has historic or architectural...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 25, 2024
Headline magic
If you read the UK media, you might be forgiven for thinking that no story about British real estate is complete without a link to Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 8, 2024
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