Second chances
July 1997. A lavish birthday party for a controversial royal paramour. Her old flame and current lover, the future king of England, rises...
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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
- 6 days ago
Short and sweet
Fellow novelists do not invariably appreciate Jane Austen—looking at you, Charlotte Brontë!—but it’s always a pleasure when they do. And...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 20
Rebooting 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 Yaffe
- Nov 16
Jane Austen universe(s), Part II
If you spend your days reading Jane Austen novels and consuming Jane Austen adaptations and talking to fellow Jane Austen fans and...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 13
Janeite abroad
Jane 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 Yaffe
- Nov 9
Decompressing with Jane
In 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 Yaffe
- Nov 2
Correspondence course
Last year, the Huntington Library in Southern California announced the acquisition of an annotated trove of nearly four hundred letters...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 30
It's that time again
Signs of autumn: Falling leaves. Halloween pumpkins. And the Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, which...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 26
If 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 Yaffe
- Oct 23
In the mind's eye
Jane Austen’s physical descriptions of her characters are famously sparse. But if you ask me, Anne Elliot, Emma Woodhouse, and Elizabeth...
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