Deborah YaffeFeb 26, 2018P&P on iceThe Winter Olympics are over, but not without a fleeting Jane Austen moment. Last week, as my daughter and I were sitting glued to the...
Deborah YaffeFeb 22, 2018Angst in AdlestropSometimes the English are just so. . . English that you can’t help giggling. And so it was earlier this month, when I happened across the...
Deborah YaffeFeb 19, 2018Jane Austen tidbitsAlthough it’s been a quiet few weeks on the Austen beat, at least compared with last year’s bicentenary frenzy, a few bits of Janeite...
Deborah YaffeFeb 15, 2018Janeite in residenceThey crop up regularly, those Janeite dream jobs. We read the announcements, and we think how lovely it would be to spend hours...
Deborah YaffeFeb 12, 2018Jane Austen in the age of the selfieLong, long ago – wait, was it only 2009? – a clever young man named Seth Grahame-Smith interpolated zombie references into the text of...
Deborah YaffeFeb 8, 2018The fifth-grade Jane AustenIs Jane Austen hard to read? “Absolutely not!” I hear you Janeites saying. “She’s a master of precise and lucid prose! Her dialogue...
Deborah YaffeFeb 5, 2018Rebranding Chawton HouseNobody called it branding in Jane Austen’s day, although Lord Byron, at least, was an expert practitioner of the craft avant la lettre....
Deborah YaffeFeb 1, 2018More reasons to visit ChawtonThe most beloved Austen site in England -- Jane Austen’s House Museum, aka Chawton Cottage, the Hampshire home where Austen wrote or...