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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 15, 2021
Cross-channel connections
Jane Austen is usually thought of as a quintessentially English writer, what with all those landed estates, rural rectories, and mannerly...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 12, 2021
Strange brew
One of the many, many reasons I am glad not to live in the time of Jane Austen – right up there with the absence of antibiotics, reliable...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2021
Austenian medical mystery
Jane Austen’s death is tragic, because she died at only forty-one, at the height of her artistic powers. It’s also mysterious – the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 11, 2021
On this day in 1801. . .
Sixty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen communicated nothing particularly remarkable in...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 14, 2021
On this day in 1796. . .
Sixtieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The record of Jane Austen’s thoughts, feelings, and opinions is...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 7, 2021
Recovering a literary Holy Grail
It’s been more than three years since a trio of passionate Janeites formed the Godmersham Lost Sheep Society (GLOSS), an organization...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 28, 2020
On this day in 1798. . .
Fifty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. When Jane Austen sat down to write a letter to her sister,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 23, 2020
On this day in 1815. . .
Fifty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Although Jane Austen was a professional writer who spent six...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 13, 2020
On this day in 1804. . .
Fifty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The letter that the 28-year-old Jane Austen wrote to her...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 23, 2020
AKA
Did Jane Austen want the world to know her name? It’s a complicated question. In January 1796, in a letter to her sister, Cassandra, the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 26, 2020
Ruins
Tom Lefroy’s house is crumbling away. To Janeites, this may seem poetic justice for the young Irishman who danced and flirted with the...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 27, 2020
On this day in 1817. . .
Fifty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. I recently finished reading my eighth biography of Jane...
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