Deborah YaffeJul 31, 2017Camera-readyAmong the many, many activities taking place on the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death earlier this month was the unveiling of a new...
Deborah YaffeJul 27, 2017Taxi!I marked the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death last week in rather prosaic fashion: giving my house an all-too-infrequent thorough...
Deborah YaffeJul 24, 2017Jane Austen lives!When I was researching Among the Janeites, a former president of the Jane Austen Society of North America told me a charming story about...
Deborah YaffeJul 20, 2017The Austen ice bucket challengeThere are many things I would be willing to do to secure the future of Chawton House Library, one of the Austen world’s great treasures....
Deborah YaffeJul 17, 2017Six booksTomorrow marks the anniversary that we all – or, at least, all those of us who are Janeites – have been waiting for since 2017 dawned:...
Deborah YaffeJul 14, 2017And also this. . .The cherry on the sundae of the New York Times's unexpected interest in Among the Janeites: I'm on the New York Times Book Review's...
Deborah YaffeJul 13, 2017Such art as hersFor visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum -- aka Chawton cottage -- where Austen spent the last eight years of her life and wrote or...
Deborah YaffeJul 11, 2017Better late than neverExciting news! A mere four years after publication, Among the Janeites has earned a review in the New York Times Book Review -- and by...
Deborah YaffeJul 10, 2017All the famous ladiesMore than eighty years ago, a famous art historian commissioned two famous painters (one of them related to an even more famous writer)...