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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
Feb 6
Treasure trove
Jane Austen’s travelling writing desk , often described as the eighteenth-century equivalent of a laptop, is usually on display at the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 30
Back in the day
I still remember the first time I watched the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice .  At the time, my husband and I lived...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2
Celebration, by any name
A 250th birthday goes by many names . It can be called a semiquincentennial, a sestercentennial, a quarter millennial--even a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 9, 2024
Jane Austen's fingerprints
In these days of standardized computer fonts and software-assisted editing, one writer’s manuscript probably looks much like another’s....
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 11, 2024
Regency stylings
A few months ago, I noted with surprise that I was eagerly anticipating my next visit to a place I often describe as the most boring...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 24, 2024
Center of celebration
If next year’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth has an epicenter, it would surely be Jane Austen’s House , the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 17, 2024
Desk set
The celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth won’t officially kick off until next year, but that isn’t stopping the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 19, 2024
Love among the stacks
Is Jane Austen a romance novelist? Discuss.  Or, if you’re not interested in revisiting your test-taking days, you could just travel to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 15, 2024
Regency fashion, off the beaten path
My husband grew up in the northwestern English city of Lancaster. It is not my favorite place. The weather is frequently dank and...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 13, 2024
The Shirt, unveiled
Sometimes launching a museum exhibition is a complicated process, as catalogs are researched, international loan agreements negotiated,...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 2, 2024
Embroidering Chawton
The last time I completed a significant piece of needlework (see below) was during the early months of pandemic quarantine, when being...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 23, 2023
In the mind's eye
Jane Austen’s physical descriptions of her characters are famously sparse. But if you ask me, Anne Elliot, Emma Woodhouse, and Elizabeth...
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