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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
Sep 16
Marital gift-giving
As a card-carrying Wife, I feel I must call my Husband’s attention to a recent feature in Town & Country magazine, “ 40 of the Best...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 10, 2020
Miss Austen disposes
Another day, another Jane Austen event I wish I could attend. Tomorrow, Gill Hornby, whose new novel Miss Austen explores the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2, 2020
Eighty years on
The year that began yesterday will not bring us any important Jane Austen anniversaries: The bicentenaries of her death and of the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 14, 2019
Companions
Thirteen years ago, when PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre aired a new adaptation of Jane Eyre, the network offered viewers a chance to buy...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 6, 2018
Live like Jane
Jane Austen was a novelist, not an accountant, therapist, scientist, or priest. But you wouldn’t know it from the array of books...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 31, 2018
Never too much Jane
Sometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 25, 2017
Herding sheep
Somewhere out there, lost lambs are baa-ing to return to the fold, and a group of scholarly Bo Peeps is ready to shepherd them home. The...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 3, 2017
Haute couture juvenilia
Collecting copies of Jane Austen’s books is a popular Janeite pastime. The wealthy seek out rare and valuable first editions. The...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 5, 2017
Austen laurels
D-Day for Janeites – aka July 18, the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s untimely death – is approaching quickly, and a number of UK outlets...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 16, 2017
More pictures of Fanny
Earlier this month, Janeites were delighted when the Folio Society publishers and the House of Illustration, a London gallery devoted to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2, 2017
A whirlwind new year for Janeites
Happy new year, Janeites! For us fans of Jane Austen, 2017 is a big year, the biggest since – well, since 2013, when we celebrated the...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 1, 2016
Not quite Antiques Roadshow
The story sounds irresistible: A treasured Jane Austen first edition, inscribed more than a century earlier to an unknown young woman,...
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