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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

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 16, 2023

Speaking well enough to be unintelligible

A few weeks ago, the British press was suddenly awash in articles (for example, here, here and here) about the new! exciting! previously...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 6, 2023

Hey, cupcake

Last month, noting the pending release of a Pride and Prejudice screen update entitled Townhouse Confidential, I reported, “My...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 8, 2018

Remembering feminist history

In Jane Austen’s time, as we know, women’s lives and opportunities were circumscribed in ways we can scarcely imagine today. Women were...