Rosenbach Museum & Library | DeborahYaffe.com

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

Oct 20, 2022

Drinking game

This fall and winter, every Janeite workweek starts with “Austen Monday”—the evening on which the Rosenbach, Philadelphia’s museum and...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 29, 2022

Diving deep

We Janeites like to say that Austen’s novels repay slow and careful perusal, and that every time we reread, we discover something new....

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 21, 2016

Rosenbach reading group

Discussing Jane Austen with fellow fans is one of the delights of Janeite life. If I lived closer to Philly, I would definitely have...