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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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The Austen prescription
Jane Austen’s power to console during times of trauma is an established trope by now: cue mention of how British authorities prescribed...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 4, 2020
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Listen up
Nothing beats hearing a soothing, familiar voice read an engrossing story aloud. I loved the read-aloud experience when I was a child...
Deborah Yaffe
May 21, 2020
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On and off
For those of us who love our Jane Austen adaptations, the coronavirus quarantine has been the best of times and the worst of times. The...
Deborah Yaffe
May 7, 2020
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From museum to house
Two years ago, Chawton House Library – a research center for the study of early English writing by women, located in an Elizabethan...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 20, 2020
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Tuning in to P&P
Last week’s online premiere of a new musical version of Pride and Prejudice, streamed for free by Streaming Musicals, drew a more than...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 16, 2020
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More Austen for the quarantined
Just in case last Friday’s live-on-tape streaming version of a Pride and Prejudice musical hasn’t slaked your thirst for Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 13, 2020
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Replenishing the larder
At this point, roughly three weeks into All-American Shelter at Home, you -- the average Janeite -- have probably watched, or re-watched,...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 9, 2020
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Tripping
Plans are apparently progressing for Trip, a gay-themed Pride and Prejudice update set on the New York gay mecca of Fire Island and...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 30, 2020
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Book nerds unite
I was a teenage book nerd. Also a pre-teen one. And an adult one. Basically, I’ve had my nose in a book (or, more recently, my eyes on a...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 5, 2020
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Keeping up with the Janeites, Part II
In September, we suspected. We hoped. We crossed our fingers. And now it’s confirmed. In perhaps the least likely household on Planet...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 30, 2020
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Bewitching
Search engine optimization and web analytics are topics about which I know very little. (OK: nothing.) So when Google sends me its...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 13, 2020
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Fruitcake
As the holidays approach, you may be bracing for the arrival of that winter perennial, the fruitcake -- baked months earlier, soaked in...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2019
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