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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
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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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 12, 2023
Bowled over
In the early days of our romance, my now-husband, a Brit with a deep fondness for the sports of his island home, tried valiantly to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 18, 2023
On this day in 1796. . .
Eighty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The British have a well-documented penchant for discussing...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 24, 2023
On this day in 1806. . .
Eighty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. I’ve noted before that, as a poet, Jane Austen was a great...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 20, 2023
Semi-native daughter
Jane Austen’s stays in the southern English port of Southampton were short-ish and not especially happy. As a seven-year-old, she...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 17, 2023
(Un)happy childhoods
I suppose I should no longer find it bemusing when false, misleading, or completely unsubstantiated information about Jane Austen’s life...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2023
Dear diary
Let me start by pointing out that I do understand the concept of clickbait. Really, I do. But still, I’m left breathless at the moxie of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26, 2023
On this day in 1808. . .
Eighty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The letter Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 6, 2023
Failures
As a way to make a living, writing pretty much sucks, as most writers not named James Patterson or Malcolm Gladwell can tell you. So I...
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