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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
Aug 6, 2014
In charge at the cottage
I just can’t get enough of these Janeite dream jobs. Last year, Cassandra’s Cup, the tea shop across the road from Chawton cottage, the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 13, 2014
Waxing Jane
The biggest news in the Janeite world last week was the unveiling of a new waxwork of Our Jane at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 20, 2014
Sleep under Jane Austen's roof
Yet another goodie for Janeites to gaze at wistfully: an opportunity to win a mid-week stay in Bath, England, in a building described as...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 6, 2014
Life among the ruins
Australia’s Sydney Morning Herald ran an engrossing interview this past weekend with Caroline Knight, a great-greatgreatgreatI'velostcoun...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 19, 2014
Darcy in Lilliput
When a twelve-foot-high fiberglass statue of wet-shirt-Darcy was erected in a famed London lake last summer, it seemed the apotheosis of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 12, 2014
Another Janeite dream job
Last year, I briefly indulged a Janeite fantasy as I imagined plunking down a cool million dollars to buy Cassandra’s Cup, the teashop...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 27, 2014
Goofy Austen News; or, Any Link to Jane Will Do
There are weeks when all you hear about Jane Austen is staid, decorous stuff: the prospect of a new film adaptation, or the exhibit of a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 20, 2014
Vicariously visiting Jane Austen's England
This summer, the Jane Austen Society of North America will once again sponsor a tour of Austen sites in England – the places she lived,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 14, 2013
Tiny Regency furniture
I can’t imagine anything more fun than the you-got-your-chocolate-in-my-peanut-butter combination of Jane Austen and dollhouse...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 21, 2013
Janeite fantasy: Buy Cassandra's Cup
Janeite fantasies don't get much more fantastic than this: Cassandra's Cup, the tea shop located directly opposite Jane Austen's House...
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