Digging in
It’s December 25! Time for everyone’s favorite Christmas tradition: A trip to the movies, followed by a delicious dinner of steamed...
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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
Mar 21, 2022
Sharing a cuppa
Just a few days ago, I returned from a visit to family in England. In my natural habitat, I’m not much of a tea drinker; absent a sore...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 3, 2022
Mouthwatering
Austen-influenced crafts come in many forms. There are knitting patterns. There are board games. There are tote bags and jewelry and...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 5, 2021
Housekeeping
Jane Austen apparently liked to eat – “You know how interesting the purchase of a sponge-cake is to me,” she wrote to her sister in June...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 12, 2021
Strange brew
One of the many, many reasons I am glad not to live in the time of Jane Austen – right up there with the absence of antibiotics, reliable...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 29, 2021
Happy birthday indeed
For most people, this past year has been at best pretty bad and at worst utterly tragic. On the bright side, however, the challenge of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 19, 2020
Dining out
I don’t know about you, but I miss dinner parties. You remember dinner parties: those occasions on which you gathered with friends –...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 21, 2020
The Jane Austen Guide to Quarantine
For many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 6, 2018
Live like Jane
Jane Austen was a novelist, not an accountant, therapist, scientist, or priest. But you wouldn’t know it from the array of books...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 22, 2018
Saint Charlotte
Thanksgiving Day may seem to be a holiday with no connection whatsoever to the works of Jane Austen. True, her major novels include the...
Deborah Yaffe
May 6, 2018
P&P for foodies
Jane Austen’s mature novels are not, by and large, very foodie. Although important scenes occur over meals – think Mary Crawford’s...
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