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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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Noted
When my children were in grade school, their English teachers often required them to annotate their reading: For each chapter, students...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 18, 2024
Austenian situationships
“There is a scene in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility where the hopelessly romantic Marianne Dashwood writes a letter to a man she...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 15, 2024
Miss Austen, sans regrets
Never let it be said that I allowed my excitement--nay, my sheer giddy fervor!--over the Hallmark Channel’s upcoming Jane Austen month to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 11, 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
Jane-talk, sponsored
Back in the summer of 2022, TikTok kicked off its inaugural book club with a group reading of Persuasion. Allegedly, the TikTok Book Club...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 4, 2024
Happy New Loveyear
New Year’s Day has its melancholy side: Tinsel shelved until next December, work on the horizon, hangover hanging on. Luckily, however,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 1, 2024
On this day in 1808. . .
Ninetieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen had six brothers, but one of them—George, the...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 28, 2023
Digging in
It’s December 25! Time for everyone’s favorite Christmas tradition: A trip to the movies, followed by a delicious dinner of steamed...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 25, 2023
The sounds of Jane Austen Christmas
Emma Woodhouse’s Christmas holiday is not a good one, as readers of Emma will recall: On Christmas Eve, she fends off Mr. Elton’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 21, 2023
AirbnJA
Janeites love making pilgrimages to the places where Jane Austen—or at least her relatives--once lived, worked, or ate. But for some...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 18, 2023
Bronzing Jane, again
Exactly five years ago, Winchester Cathedral proposed erecting a statue of Jane Austen in the Cathedral Close, in tribute to the most...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 14, 2023
Girly stuff
My husband likes to read. But the books he picks! All those violent Nordic thrillers! All those biographies of rock musicians! All those...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 11, 2023
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