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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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Deborah Yaffe
1 day ago
Pemberley on the wall
When Elizabeth Bennet visits Pemberley, she admires the furniture, the paintings, and the view from the windows. Apparently, however, she...
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Deborah Yaffe
4 days ago
Tunes
“To be quite honest, I do not think I can live without something of a musical society,” the newlywed Mrs. Elton reports telling her...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 13
On foot, part II
If you missed the Autumn Walking Festival in Alton, England , next door to the Hampshire village where Jane Austen spent the last eight...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 10
Catering to the kids
Do Kids These Days need to be coaxed into picking up a book? What with their new-fangled BookTok and #bookstagram, they seem to be doing...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 6
Treasure trove
Jane Austen’s travelling writing desk , often described as the eighteenth-century equivalent of a laptop, is usually on display at the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 3
Branding exercise
A few weeks ago, I ran across a 2011 article in which the wonderful Scottish novelist Ali Smith explained why she seldom grants...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 30
Back in the day
I still remember the first time I watched the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice . At the time, my husband and I lived...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 27
G.I. Jane
Nothing depresses my spirits more quickly than an article promising to reveal Surprising Facts About Jane Austen. What follows—whether...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 23
Fun run
Pride and Prejudice is a novel filled with long walks. But jogging? Not so much. Elizabeth Bennet strides from Longbourn to Netherfield,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 20
Contested ground
Jane Austen was a country girl, raised in a rural enclave of Hampshire, England, where the houses she lived in and the churches she...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 16
Oh, the places you'll go
Nobody has to tell us Janeites that 2025—aka the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth—is a special year to visit Austen sites in the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 13
Mr. Darcy wins again
Last year, when I first heard about the new French romcom Jane Austen Wrecked My Life , I predicted that its romantic triangle, pitting...
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