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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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Coming of age
Say this for Jane Austen: She’s an inexhaustible source of roles for actresses who have aged out of the film industry’s ingenue...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 28
Second springs
The inexhaustible well of creative inspiration that is Pride and Prejudice looks to be bubbling over once again. Whether you prefer to...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 25
Voices
Inscriptions in old books have an eerie quality--those glimpses of forgotten lives and echoes of silenced voices. So it’s no wonder that...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 21
Time to exhibit
As we approach the last third of this Austen 250 year, the torrent of anniversary-related events shows no sign of abating—especially in...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 18
For sale
Few pastimes give me as much pleasure as the ogling of unaffordable real estate. It’s a bonus when said real estate has Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 14
Austen business is booming
Jane Austen “is on course to have her best year since 2009,” the UK publishing industry magazine The Bookseller reported recently. “In...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 11
Jane on Zoom
Those of us who live within striking distance of New York City have another five weeks in which to catch the Morgan Library & Museum’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 7
Girls on film
Three-quarters of the twenty-first century lies ahead of us, but already the New York Times is hard at work on clickbait Best of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 4
Soaked and sodden
In Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice , no one gets wet, except for poor Jane Bennet, soaked (offstage) while riding to Netherfield...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 31
Janeite fun for all ages
Although Jane Austen didn’t write for children, many Janeites discover Austen during their tween or teen years, around the age when...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 28
Hatching time
Like periodical cicadas, Austen adaptations come around on a predictable schedule. Every ten or fifteen years, a newly hatched crew of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 24
Gifts
My husband was sure there would be no gift shop at 8 College Street , the Winchester house where Jane Austen died, and which opened to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 21
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