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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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One of Us
For a long time, we have known that at least one* Janeite lives barely a heartbeat away from the British throne: Seven years ago,...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 14, 2022
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A newly planted Austen society
Like a Janeite version of Johnny Appleseed, the British-Pakistani journalist and writer Laaleen Sukhera seems to be making a habit of...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 31, 2022
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CryptoJane
Back in 2013, when the Bank of England announced that Jane Austen would be the face of the £10 note, little did we know that less than a...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 3, 2022
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Janeite on a sled
The unholy spectacle of a Russian coach berating a fifteen-year-old figure skater after an epic public fail shadowed by a doping scandal...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 28, 2022
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With friends like these. . .
For the most part, I love my fellow Janeites. By and large, we are a smart, thoughtful bunch who, whatever our political, temperamental,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 13, 2022
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Raising Jane(ites)
Long ago, I danced at a JASNA ball with a twelve-year-old girl who, when I asked if she was a Janeite, told me that she had “been raised...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2021
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A Janeite passes on
Two months ago, I noted a Janeite milestone: the one hundredth birthday of Helen Lefroy, a dedicated Janeite with a familial link to Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 19, 2021
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A poet of the ordinary
A poet whose work I didn’t know died the other day. Stephen Dunn was a Pulitzer Prize winner who “specialized in poems about surviving,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 8, 2021
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One hundred candles
Back in 2011, when the research for my book Among the Janeites took me on the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual tour of...
Deborah Yaffe
May 17, 2021
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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...
Deborah Yaffe
May 6, 2021
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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
Mar 29, 2021
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Mars and Venus
These days, Jane Austen enthusiasts are often typecast as college girls swooning over Matthew Macfadyen, or middle-aged women dressing up...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 25, 2021
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