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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
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 20
Contested ground
Jane Austen was a country girl, raised in a rural enclave of Hampshire, England, where the houses she lived in and the churches she...
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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 12, 2024
Rank order
Jane Austen’s House in Chawton, England—her home for the last eight years of her life, and the place where she wrote or revised all six...
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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
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 14, 2024
On foot
Jane Austen’s heroines do a lot of walking. Elizabeth Bennet strides purposefully from Longbourn to Netherfield, muddying her petticoat...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 10, 2024
Plain and ornamental
In his 1870 Memoir of Jane Austen , the author’s nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, reports that his famous aunt “was successful in...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 23, 2024
Creepy Lizzy
The newest Lizzy Bennet is a peculiar creature. True, her Regency-appropriate curls are lovely, and her dark eyes might pass for fine,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 6, 2024
Acquired taste
Mansfield Park’s status as the most polarizing of Jane Austen’s novels is by now well-established. It’s the black-olives-and-anchovy...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 23, 2024
Noses to the grindstone
Just three weeks after Jane Austen’s House launched its much-hyped group effort to transcribe the unpublished memoir of Austen’s older...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 13, 2024
Too good to check
Journalists like to joke that some stories are “too good to check”: so juicily entertaining that the last thing you want is to attempt...
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