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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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Janeite house-share
Have you been racking your brain to think of a fun vacation house-share for two dozen of your closest Janeite friends? Well, rack no more...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 3, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Elizabeth Jenkins
For someone who led such a short, uneventful life, and one about which comparatively little is known, Jane Austen has inspired a...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 30, 2016
The end of a dry spell?
We fans of Jane Austen movie adaptations have had kind of a dry spell for the last few years. We’ve watched poor Sally Hawkins gallop...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 27, 2016
Color to win
When I was ten years old, or thereabouts, I won a coloring contest sponsored by the local bus company. Since my artistic ability was –...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 23, 2016
Lip gloss meets hamentashen
The holiday of Purim, which begins on Wednesday night, is the Jewish version of Mardi Gras: to commemorate the Biblical tale of how Queen...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 20, 2016
Setting Mansfield Park to music
The ordinary happiness and quiet heartbreak of Jane Austen's novels hardly seem to fit the melodramatic template of so many grand operas,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 16, 2016
Vintage Arnie
Readers of my book Among the Janeites may remember one particularly colorful character: Arnie Perlstein, the Florida lawyer who...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 13, 2016
Emma as imaginist
Emma marked its publication bicentennial in December, and celebrations are still underway across the Janeite world. I’m happy to announce...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 10, 2016
Getting it wrong, again
It’s time again for one of my favorite pastimes: Making Fun of the Internet – Jane Austen Edition. Today’s episode includes two entries: ...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 7, 2016
On this day in 1814. . .
Eleventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters Henry Austen, the fourth-oldest of Jane Austen’s seven siblings,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 3, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: As If!
I love Clueless. Doesn’t everyone? Last summer marked the twentieth anniversary of the film’s release, and the milestone inspired a slew...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 29, 2016
Supper time
Toronto, it seems, is a really great place to be a Janeite. Last year, the local Jane Austen re-enactment community -- as best I can...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 25, 2016
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