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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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On this day in 1798. . .
Ninety-eighth in an occasional series  of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters.  Mary Lloyd was a friend of Jane and Cassandra Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 2, 2024
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On this day in 1808. . .
Ninety-sixth in an occasional series  of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Janeites do not always take Jane Austen at her word when it...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 7, 2024
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On this day in 1801. . .
Ninety-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. A curious—and curiously contemporary--passage appears in the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 25, 2024
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On this day in 1808. . .
Eighty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Novelists are a ruthless bunch. They find grist for their...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 16, 2023
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On this day in 1796. . .
Eighty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The British have a well-documented penchant for discussing...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 18, 2023
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Edward Knight, publican?
Edward Knight, Jane Austen’s third-oldest brother, was a husband, a father, a landowner, and the man who provided one of England’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 12, 2023
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On this day in 1811. . .
Eighty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s traditional to envision Jane Austen as a homebody, and...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 20, 2023
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On this day in 1813. . .
Eighty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Sometimes you read a famous author’s correspondence and...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 3, 2022
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On this day in 1798. . .
Eightieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Nowadays, an unpublished writer can upload her...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 24, 2022
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On this day in 1811. . .
Seventy-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s novels famously contain few detailed...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 6, 2022
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Another mansion for sale
Once again, it’s time for every Janeite’s favorite sport: eying up palatial real estate with tangential Jane Austen associations. Today’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 18, 2021
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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
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