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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
Sep 12, 2024
Lab work
The Race and Regency Lab, an intriguing new scholarly project that aims to “reimagine our understandings of race” in Jane Austen’s era,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 8, 2024
The bad old days
How badly off were women in Jane Austen’s England? It’s a question I’ve been mulling lately, amid a spate of recent commentary asserting...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 6, 2021
Interrogating an interrogation
Among my many Janeite pet peeves is the caricaturing of Austen fans as prudish ultraconservatives who stick their fingers in their ears...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 11, 2021
Old issues, new questions
Five years ago, I wrote a magazine article about the controversy over Woodrow Wilson’s repugnant racial views – an aspect of the...
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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 –...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 15, 2020
Reckoning with the past
By now, it’s no surprise to find Jane Austen’s name surfacing in discussions of Britain’s unsavory imperial history: The debate over the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 14, 2019
Companions
Thirteen years ago, when PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre aired a new adaptation of Jane Eyre, the network offered viewers a chance to buy...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 3, 2019
Free to be. . .
On this holiday of freedom from tyranny, including the tyranny of conventional expectations, it seems appropriate to spend a moment...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 8, 2019
Women in blue
Among London’s many delights are the blue plaques that mark buildings associated with historical personages both famous and obscure....
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 7, 2019
Jane Austen's first critic
For Janeites, it’s salt rubbed in a wound: the news that scholars will soon be able to inspect a fascinating trove of letters from an...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 12, 2018
Lucky thirteen
Name the ten most important vegetables! Quick now! Does broccoli outrank kale? How about carrots vs. turnips? Yes, yes, I know they’re...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 13, 2017
Dweeby Darcy
Edward IV, who reigned as king of England for most of the period from 1461-1483, was described by contemporaries as an unusually handsome...
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