Roots
As my family and our guests gather around our Thanksgiving table today, the menu will include a roasted carrot salad discovered in a...
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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
- Oct 5
Not so young
“First-edition books are often worth a small fortune,” the British magazine MoneyWeek reported recently, summarizing research by an...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 7
Icing on the cake
It’s turning into a self-promoting kind of week. After taking a bow on Monday for my small contribution to the ginormous task of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 21
Coveted rarities
As regular blog readers know, I have a not-so-secret hankering for Jane Austen first editions, along with nothing like enough money to...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 25
How P&P came to be
It’s a great time for programming at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote or revised all six of her...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 22
Listening pleasure
It’s been a sadly long time since I strolled through the garden at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 24
False advertising?
Like many Janeites, I know scattered bits of Austen by heart. I can proclaim the first sentences of Pride and Prejudice and Emma, recite...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 20
Recommended reading
In a world with so many books and so little time, reading recommendations--from critics, bloggers, celebrity talk-show hosts,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 19
Jane Austen's desk, online
The Jane Austen Summer Program, whose four-day symposium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, combines academic study of Austen with...
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