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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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Roots
As my family and our guests gather around our Thanksgiving table today, the menu will include a roasted carrot salad discovered in a...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 23, 2023
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Not so young
“First-edition books are often worth a small fortune,” the British magazine MoneyWeek reported recently, summarizing research by an...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 5, 2023
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Tok prize
In case you find yourself worried that Kids These Days just aren’t what they used to be—in other words, what we used to be—here’s some...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 11, 2023
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Icing on the cake
It’s turning into a self-promoting kind of week. After taking a bow on Monday for my small contribution to the ginormous task of...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 7, 2023
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Coveted rarities
As regular blog readers know, I have a not-so-secret hankering for Jane Austen first editions, along with nothing like enough money to...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 21, 2023
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How P&P came to be
It’s a great time for programming at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote or revised all six of her...
Deborah Yaffe
May 25, 2023
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Listening pleasure
It’s been a sadly long time since I strolled through the garden at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
May 22, 2023
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False advertising?
Like many Janeites, I know scattered bits of Austen by heart. I can proclaim the first sentences of Pride and Prejudice and Emma, recite...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 24, 2023
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Failures
As a way to make a living, writing pretty much sucks, as most writers not named James Patterson or Malcolm Gladwell can tell you. So I...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 6, 2023
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Recommended reading
In a world with so many books and so little time, reading recommendations--from critics, bloggers, celebrity talk-show hosts,...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 20, 2023
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Triggered
In my junior year of college, the assigned reading for my women’s studies class included Gloria Naylor’s 1982 novel The Women of Brewster...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 13, 2023
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Jane Austen's desk, online
The Jane Austen Summer Program, whose four-day symposium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, combines academic study of Austen with...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 19, 2023
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