Deborah YaffeJun 13, 2022Recommended readingTo Janeites – indeed, to anyone who’s read semi-widely and who isn’t V.S. Naipaul – it’s obvious that women are capable of writing great...
Deborah YaffeMay 8, 2019Women in blueAmong London’s many delights are the blue plaques that mark buildings associated with historical personages both famous and obscure....
Deborah YaffeMar 4, 2019Another bicentenary girlBack when I was in elementary school, ranking one’s friends – best friend, second-best friend, third-best friend – was a popular pastime....
Deborah YaffeAug 12, 2018Lucky thirteenName the ten most important vegetables! Quick now! Does broccoli outrank kale? How about carrots vs. turnips? Yes, yes, I know they’re...
Deborah YaffeJul 12, 2017Such art as hersFor visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum -- aka Chawton cottage -- where Austen spent the last eight years of her life and wrote or...
Deborah YaffeJul 9, 2017All the famous ladiesMore than eighty years ago, a famous art historian commissioned two famous painters (one of them related to an even more famous writer)...
Deborah YaffeMar 9, 2017On the trail of great writersLogically, there’s no particular reason we dedicated readers should yearn to visit the houses where our favorite writers were born, grew...
Deborah YaffeSep 9, 2015Books to flee byIn 1951, Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, Soviet spies burrowed deep into the British Foreign Office, realized they were on the brink of...
