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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
Jul 27, 2023
Summer fun
Chawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire, England, once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight, has had a busy...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 20, 2023
Semi-native daughter
Jane Austen’s stays in the southern English port of Southampton were short-ish and not especially happy. As a seven-year-old, she...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 19, 2023
Using up the leftovers
Before leaving on vacation, I always try to clean out my refrigerator—no point in coming home to sour milk and moldy vegetables. Since I...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 8, 2023
Eliza's harp
Jane Austen’s extended family was largely composed of respectable clergymen, naval officers, and landowners, along with their equally...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 25, 2023
How P&P came to be
It’s a great time for programming at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote or revised all six of her...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 27, 2023
Austen in the dreamscape
Australians may have a complicated relationship with Britain, their one-time mother country, but no such ambivalence seems to pervade...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 13, 2023
Installing Austen
A hot London designer plans to honor Jane Austen, along with other female writers, in a multimedia installation housed at an Australian...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 10, 2023
A controversial rarity
Because Jane Austen’s letters are such rare and precious gems, it’s semi-big news whenever one of the extant 160(ish) turns up on...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 3, 2023
Star attraction
Jane Austen has had friends in high places for a very long time. In 1815, she famously accepted an offer (one of those offers you can’t...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 9, 2023
The scientific method
Over the past three years, the indefatigable Jane Austen & Co. has convened four smart and provocative online lecture series about...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 5, 2022
Treasures of the collection
A year after a priceless nineteenth-century literary collection was rescued from the auction block and donated to public institutions...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 28, 2022
Regency reality
For some Janeites, fandom entails an intense engagement with the material details of Austen’s world. These Janeites are the people who...
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