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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 20, 2021
Austen women
Jane Austen isn’t just for girls, of course, but the Austenesque tidbits that the internet has tossed my way lately happen to focus on...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2021
Crunch time
Kids! Always leaving their homework to the last minute! Last summer, as blog readers will recall, a British judge sentenced a young man...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 15, 2021
Crossed wires
“Lindsay declared her love for Jane Austen on the set of ‘Winter House,’ ” my daily Google alert for Our Jane informed me the other week....
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 1, 2021
While you were sleeping. . .
It’s the start of a new month, and thus the perfect time to update some old stories: * All dressed up: Over the summer, New York...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28, 2021
Boo!
It’s the scary season – ghosts, witches, creaking doors in haunted houses. For Janeites, however, the Internet’s frightening capacity to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 11, 2021
Brass
Jane Austen, it seems, is the go-to novelist for anyone who wants to write about money. In 1937, the poet W.H. Auden famously remarked...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 23, 2021
Timeless heroine
“Mouni Roy Dresses Like A Jane Austen Heroine In Her Latest Photoshoot And Totally Nails It,” proclaimed a recent headline on the website...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 6, 2021
Required reading
Last week, a British judge imposed an unusual sentence on a young man convicted of possessing terrorism-related materials. "Have you read...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 12, 2021
Deck the halls
It was Christmas in July for those of us who spend our days looking for pop-culture recognition of Jane Austen’s genius: * July 14:...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2021
The dating game
Some weeks, it’s not clear what tidbit of gossip or news deserves mention as the biggest story in Jane Austen fandom. Other weeks, a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 8, 2021
A poet of the ordinary
A poet whose work I didn’t know died the other day. Stephen Dunn was a Pulitzer Prize winner who “specialized in poems about surviving,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 7, 2021
Vanity plate
So I spent Memorial Day weekend visiting family in Denver. One afternoon, as we drove along the street, I glanced out the window just in...
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