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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
May 23
Noses to the grindstone
Just three weeks after Jane Austen’s House launched its much-hyped group effort to transcribe the unpublished memoir of Austen’s older...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 20
On this day in 1813. . .
Ninety-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only about two years of Jane Austen’s childhood were spent...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 13
Too good to check
Journalists like to joke that some stories are “too good to check”: so juicily entertaining that the last thing you want is to attempt...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 29
Written by hand
Gather ‘round, children, and let me tell you about the olden days, when elders such as myself spent long hours, in school and out,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 1
On this day in 1816. . .
Ninety-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Just when you think it’s safe to go back in the water. . ....
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 8
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
Jan 25
On this day in 1801. . .
Ninety-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. A curious—and curiously contemporary--passage appears in the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 8
Headline magic
If you read the UK media, you might be forgiven for thinking that no story about British real estate is complete without a link to Jane...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 28, 2023
On this day in 1808. . .
Ninetieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen had six brothers, but one of them—George, the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 7, 2023
Marked up
The world can be divided into two categories: People who leave their books unsullied, and people who mark them up. And if a prominent...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 2, 2023
Correspondence course
Last year, the Huntington Library in Southern California announced the acquisition of an annotated trove of nearly four hundred letters...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 16, 2023
On this day in 1808. . .
Eighty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Novelists are a ruthless bunch. They find grist for their...
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