A milestone farewell
MGM’s 1940 movie of Pride and Prejudice was the first screen adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, and with its Victorian fashions,...
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Deborah Yaffe
- 7 days ago
Reading Austen in high places
A few months ago, I noted that the British royal family appears to include a critical mass of women who are crazy about Jane Austen. (Or...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 15
Broadening the collection
The last time the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft was the subject of a public fundraising effort, the results were...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 12
Jane Austen in love . . . maybe
Nine months have passed since we learned the happy news that a cache of priceless books and manuscripts, including two Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 8
Laying the table
From time to time, a particular news item brings a snippet of Jane Austen’s wisdom forcibly to mind – such a snippet as, say, “One half...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 1
On this day in 1796. . .
Seventy-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In December of 1775, the Rev. George Austen wrote to a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 29
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 25
Jane Austen triage
The first sentence of Pride and Prejudice turns up everywhere, most commonly a) when a journalist who doesn’t know much about Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 22
Thin gruel
Early last Tuesday morning, I opened up my phone to Wordle, the now-famous daily word-finding puzzle, and typed my usual starting guess:...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 18
On this day in 1814. . .
Seventy-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. “Write what you know,” aspiring authors are counseled in...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 15
Sale in Aisle A
Attention, bargain hunters! Five years ago, you would have needed £9 million (about $11 million) to buy Luckington Court, the Cotswolds...