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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
21 hours ago
Contested ground
Jane Austen was a country girl, raised in a rural enclave of Hampshire, England, where the houses she lived in and the churches she...
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Deborah Yaffe
5 days ago
Oh, the places you'll go
Nobody has to tell us Janeites that 2025—aka the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth—is a special year to visit Austen sites in the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2
Celebration, by any name
A 250th birthday goes by many names . It can be called a semiquincentennial, a sestercentennial, a quarter millennial--even a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 12, 2024
Rank order
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, England—her home for the last eight years of her life, and the place where she wrote or revised all six...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2024
Jane Austen's fingerprints
In these days of standardized computer fonts and software-assisted editing, one writer’s manuscript probably looks much like another’s....
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 14, 2024
Sacred space
Jane Austen breathed her last on July 18, 1817, in rented rooms at 8 College Street in the English cathedral city of Winchester. For...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 14, 2024
On foot
Jane Austen’s heroines do a lot of walking. Elizabeth Bennet strides purposefully from Longbourn to Netherfield, muddying her petticoat...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 10, 2024
Plain and ornamental
In his 1870 Memoir of Jane Austen , the author’s nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, reports that his famous aunt “was successful in...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 3, 2024
Pilgrimage sites
In case you’re looking for another stop on your Jane Austen 250th Birthday Pilgrimage, a church where she once worshiped recently...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 30, 2024
Austen-linked teardown
Let us contemplate, for a moment, the kind of wealth that allows you to spend some £17 million ($22.8 million) on a palatial second home...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 26, 2024
Regency roses
I’ve never paid particular attention to flowers in Jane Austen’s novels, but apparently, someone else has been taking note: Earlier this...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 9, 2024
R.I.P. Quackers
Let me say up front that I understand that the death of a beloved pet—like the death of a newborn baby --is no laughing matter. And yet,...
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