Deborah Yaffe3 days agoSecond chancesJuly 1997. A lavish birthday party for a controversial royal paramour. Her old flame and current lover, the future king of England, rises...
Deborah Yaffe6 days agoShort and sweetFellow novelists do not invariably appreciate Jane Austen—looking at you, Charlotte Brontë!—but it’s always a pleasure when they do. And...
Deborah YaffeNov 23RootsAs my family and our guests gather around our Thanksgiving table today, the menu will include a roasted carrot salad discovered in a...
Deborah YaffeNov 20Rebooting Clueless: The Musical Almost five years ago, I saw the off-Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical and found it a disappointingly pallid version of the...
Deborah YaffeNov 16Jane Austen universe(s), Part IIIf you spend your days reading Jane Austen novels and consuming Jane Austen adaptations and talking to fellow Jane Austen fans and...
Deborah YaffeNov 13Janeite abroadJane Austen has a substantial following in Ukraine, it seems. This is not something I knew two years ago, but a lot has changed in the...
Deborah YaffeNov 9Decompressing with JaneIn the past seven years, I’ve blogged at least twice about a recurrent motif: reading Jane Austen for a temporary escape from the horrors...
Deborah YaffeNov 6AdaptableIn the two centuries since Jane Austen’s death, her novels have proved almost infinitely adaptable, transmuted into stage plays, radio...
Deborah YaffeNov 2Correspondence courseLast year, the Huntington Library in Southern California announced the acquisition of an annotated trove of nearly four hundred letters...
Deborah YaffeOct 30It's that time againSigns of autumn: Falling leaves. Halloween pumpkins. And the Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, which...
Deborah YaffeOct 26If the shoe fits. . . The annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America is coming up next week in Denver, and with it that age-old...
Deborah YaffeOct 23In the mind's eyeJane Austen’s physical descriptions of her characters are famously sparse. But if you ask me, Anne Elliot, Emma Woodhouse, and Elizabeth...