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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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Crossed wires
“Lindsay declared her love for Jane Austen on the set of ‘Winter House,’ ” my daily Google alert for Our Jane informed me the other week....
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 15, 2021
Austen and Asia
Last year, as George Floyd’s murder sparked a racial reckoning around the globe, the public humanities collaborative Jane Austen & Co....
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 11, 2021
Time travel
We EngLit types are not always as adept at math as we are at literary analysis. But we’ll need to brush up our arithmetical skills this...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 8, 2021
Normal-ish
Is the pandemic over yet? The answer, of course, depends on where you live, but one hopeful sign that some of us are partway back to...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 4, 2021
While you were sleeping. . .
It’s the start of a new month, and thus the perfect time to update some old stories: * All dressed up: Over the summer, New York...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 1, 2021
Boo!
It’s the scary season – ghosts, witches, creaking doors in haunted houses. For Janeites, however, the Internet’s frightening capacity to...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28, 2021
Selling Scarlets, again
We Janeites would kill to live in an Austen-linked stately home. That goes without saying. But – is it possible that such properties are...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 25, 2021
Failure to persuade
“You can never have too much Persuasion,” I opined three months ago, as each day seemed to bring a new announcement of a forthcoming...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 21, 2021
On this day in 1815. . .
Sixty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Last month, I noted that Jane Austen’s account of a...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 18, 2021
Listening in on Chawton House
Last summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 14, 2021
Brass
Jane Austen, it seems, is the go-to novelist for anyone who wants to write about money. In 1937, the poet W.H. Auden famously remarked...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 11, 2021
Dancing with Willoughby
Who’s Your Favorite Darcy is, by now, a classic Janeite pastime, pitting fervent Firthians against zealous MacFadyenites, while small but...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 7, 2021
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