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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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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 12, 2017
A rose is a rose
I love the idea of gardening – fresh air! Closeness to nature! The magic of growth and change! I love the results of gardening --...
Deborah Yaffe
May 31, 2017
Holiday break in Austen country
Any plans late next month? No? Then head over to the web site of Jane Austen 200 – the clearinghouse for events scheduled this year in...
Deborah Yaffe
May 28, 2017
Tragic forty-one
Forty-one is a tragic number for Janeites – the all-too-young age at which Jane Austen left this world exactly two centuries ago, at the...
Deborah Yaffe
May 17, 2017
Tending the Austen flame
Jane Austen’s books feature plenty of quietly competent women going about their work with minimal fuss – and, sometimes, minimal...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 2, 2017
Floor-to-ceiling Austen
The curators of Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton are hard at work freshening the place up for this year’s commemoration of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 2, 2017
Jane's fundraising
As every homeowner knows, the passage of time can wreak havoc on even the best-constructed building. Paint peels, window frames warp,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 8, 2016
Austen must-sees
I am, of course, aware that online listicles with titles like “22 Places in the UK That Are a Must-See for Jane Austen Fans” are silly...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 24, 2016
Worldwide Janeite partying
As summer weeks go, the week ahead is looking pretty good for Jane Austen fans: * Tomorrow and Saturday, the Janeites of Port Alberni, in...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 6, 2016
Cassandra's grief
Cassandra Austen gets a bad rap from Janeites. As I’ve noted before, many of us just can’t forgive her for burning who-knows-how-many of...
Deborah Yaffe
May 3, 2015
In charge at the cottage
I just can’t get enough of these Janeite dream jobs. Last year, Cassandra’s Cup, the tea shop across the road from Chawton cottage, the...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 6, 2014
Another Janeite dream job
Last year, I briefly indulged a Janeite fantasy as I imagined plunking down a cool million dollars to buy Cassandra’s Cup, the teashop...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 12, 2014
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