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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
Jan 30, 2023
Tom Lefroy, commitment-phobe?
Consider the term “fuckboy”: --“A womanizer; a young man who sleeps with women without any intention of having a relationship with them ....
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 9, 2023
On this day in 1801. . .
Eighty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In January 1801, the twenty-five-year-old Jane Austen was...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 7, 2022
Slush
Today, it’s called the slush pile: the tottering heap of unsolicited manuscripts that clog the mailboxes—these days, the email boxes—of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 10, 2022
Expensive thrills
For Janeites, the Austen First Edition Thrill-o-Meter is calibrated something like this: Biggest Thrill: Austen novel first edition owned...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 8, 2022
Family letters
As we Janeites know to our sorrow, only 160 of Jane Austen’s letters survive, and some of those are filled with details that mean little...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 28, 2022
In the stars
Jane Austen was a Sagittarius. Would she have cared? Or, as a clergyman’s daughter and a pious Anglican, would she have rejected the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 30, 2022
Feeding the beast
The appetite for Jane Austen-adjacent content never seems to flag, at least in the Anglophiliac precincts of PBS. If you ate up Season...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 6, 2022
On this day in 1811. . .
Seventy-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s novels famously contain few detailed...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 12, 2022
On this day in 1801. . .
Seventy-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. How autobiographical is Jane Austen’s writing? Impossible...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 21, 2022
On this day in 1805. . .
Seventy-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Leigh-Perrot, who was married to the older brother of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 14, 2022
On this day in 1817. . .
Seventy-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters The letter that Jane Austen wrote to her 11-year-old niece...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 31, 2022
Jane all around
Jane Austen turns up in the most unexpected places, doesn’t she? Here’s where she’s been in the past week: --Jane Austen and true crime:...
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