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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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Austen in profile
The other day, I ran across this attractive Austen-themed craft idea, and it got me thinking about that silhouette. Now owned by the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 5, 2014
Another brick in the wall
Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 10, 2014
My share in the conversation
The writer and blogger Sarah Emsley is two months into “An Invitation to Mansfield Park,” her year-long series of weekly guest posts...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 9, 2014
The scandalous playwright of Mansfield
An informative and interesting recent post on the British Library’s European Studies blog talked about August von Kotzebue, a late...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 6, 2014
Strange business, indeed
Judging from the near-absence of any mention of our blessed land in the works of Jane Austen, it appears that our beloved author didn’t...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 2, 2014
Late arrival at the Janeite party
From time to time, it’s useful to recall that not everyone knows as much about Jane Austen as we Janeites do. Last week’s salutary...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 22, 2014
Pop the champagne corks for Mansfield Park's 200th
Tomorrow is Mansfield Park’s two hundredth birthday, and what’s a birthday without a party? Our host is the writer and blogger Sarah...
Deborah Yaffe
May 7, 2014
Belle arrives
I’m looking forward to seeing Belle, the new movie about the real-life, mixed-race great-niece of Lord Mansfield, the eighteenth-century...
Deborah Yaffe
May 4, 2014
Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen books
Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 19, 2013
Hey Jane
Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular novel. It’s the one that gets assigned in high school, makes the top-novels-of-all-time...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 18, 2013
Guest post at The Book Rat
I've got a guest post today at The Book Rat, on why Mansfield Park gets so little love, even among Janeites. The blog is also giving away...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 18, 2013
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