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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
Mar 22, 2021
Small world
The world of the British aristocracy can seem very small indeed. Witness this month’s auction of items from the estate of the late...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 4, 2021
More name-dropping
The virtual ink had barely dried on my recent blog post about a questionable list of Jane Austen-themed names for baby boys when I...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 1, 2021
Name-dropping
It’s a well-established Janeite practice to name children and pets after Austen characters: while researching my book Among the Janeites,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 22, 2021
Three weeks, three books (or is it four?)
Jane Austen sightings are like buses: Sometimes, you don’t get one for ages, and sometimes, they come in bunches. These last few weeks...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 18, 2021
Staying safe
Four years ago, I blogged about a rather unusual type of Austen-themed merchandise. Who needs fridge magnets or tote bags when you can...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 4, 2021
On the road with Jane Austen
In her too-short life, Jane Austen traveled very little, barely venturing beyond a few counties in southern and midlands England and...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 7, 2020
Crashing at Henry's place
Few of Jane Austen’s heroines are economically secure, so it’s ironic that her modern-day brand has become inextricably associated with...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 30, 2020
Mutton and rhubarb
Jane Austen seems to have spent as little time as possible in the kitchen, leaving the cooking to the women she lived with and the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 5, 2020
Mr. Darcy, harasser?
Jane Austen has been used and abused in so many different ways by now, pressed into service to sell everything from perfume to romance...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 2020
Jane talks back
Jane Austen lived a very long time ago, in a world whose gender roles, social conditions, and technological context are largely alien to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 21, 2020
The Jane Austen Guide to Quarantine
For many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 18, 2020
Oh, to be in Paris
For some unaccountable reason, lately I find myself fantasizing longingly about travel to exotic destinations. (Not even that exotic! The...
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