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To Janeites – indeed, to anyone who’s read semi-widely and who isn’t V.S. Naipaul – it’s obvious that women are capable of writing great...
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Deborah Yaffe
- May 9, 2019
Women in blue
Among London’s many delights are the blue plaques that mark buildings associated with historical personages both famous and obscure....
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 4, 2019
Another bicentenary girl
Back when I was in elementary school, ranking one’s friends – best friend, second-best friend, third-best friend – was a popular pastime....
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 13, 2018
Lucky thirteen
Name the ten most important vegetables! Quick now! Does broccoli outrank kale? How about carrots vs. turnips? Yes, yes, I know they’re...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 13, 2017
Such art as hers
For visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum -- aka Chawton cottage -- where Austen spent the last eight years of her life and wrote or...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 10, 2017
All the famous ladies
More than eighty years ago, a famous art historian commissioned two famous painters (one of them related to an even more famous writer)...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 9, 2017
On the trail of great writers
Logically, there’s no particular reason we dedicated readers should yearn to visit the houses where our favorite writers were born, grew...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 10, 2015
Books to flee by
In 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, Soviet spies burrowed deep into the British Foreign Office, realized they were on the brink of...
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