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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
Apr 3, 2019
Statues, statues everywhere
Remember back in elementary school, when one kid would get an awesome new toy or a cool pair of shoes, and then everybody had to have...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 28, 2019
Enough already
Is it possible to have too much Jane Austen? Apparently, the good citizens of Winchester, England, think it is. Last fall, Winchester...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 28, 2019
The mysterious Rice portrait, again
One of the Janeite world’s most enduring mysteries/controversies concerns a charming eighteenth-century oil painting of a young girl in a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 20, 2018
An embarrassment of Austen statues
Eighteen months ago, not a single statue of Jane Austen was on public display anywhere in the world. And now, it appears, we will soon...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 20, 2018
A statue for Chawton
The Hampshire village of Chawton is the mecca of the Janeite faith: the community where Austen spent the last eight years of her life,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 30, 2017
Camera-ready
Among the many, many activities taking place on the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death earlier this month was the unveiling of a new...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 4, 2017
Déjà vu all over again
I love the British press. When it comes to Jane Austen, they can manufacture a story out of the thinnest gossamer. Even recycled...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 23, 2017
Bronzing Austen
Nobody knows what Jane Austen looked like. Nobody will ever know what Jane Austen looked like. So, naturally, we’ll soon have a new image...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 23, 2016
Color to win
When I was ten years old, or thereabouts, I won a coloring contest sponsored by the local bus company. Since my artistic ability was –...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 5, 2014
Austen in profile
The other day, I ran across this attractive Austen-themed craft idea, and it got me thinking about that silhouette. Now owned by the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 13, 2014
Waxing Jane
The biggest news in the Janeite world last week was the unveiling of a new waxwork of Our Jane at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 4, 2013
Picturing Austen
Pity the poor Bank of England. They had no idea what they were getting themselves into. Back in July, when the Bank announced plans to...
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