Deborah YaffeApr 30, 2018Janet knows JaneIt’s not every day that the first question a newspaper asks of a newly appointed government official is “Are your parents big Jane Austen...
Deborah YaffeApr 26, 2018Playing for keepsDespite my near-total lack of interest in video games, I am always happy to hear of another game-creator developing an Austen-themed...
Deborah YaffeApr 23, 2018Janeites, Janeites everywhereThese days, it’s de rigueur in some circles to think of Jane Austen as a closet lefty: subversive social satirist, anti-slavery...
Deborah YaffeApr 19, 2018Jane the MOOC-erJaneites tend to know quite a bit about Jane Austen: her books, her characters, her family, her life and times. But hey – there’s always...
Deborah YaffeApr 16, 2018Emma, the (latest) musicalGood news for those of us who can never get enough Jane Austen adaptations: Apparently, theater professionals in London and New York are...
Deborah YaffeApr 12, 2018Jane Austen: Leading girls astray since 1811?Back when I was writing Among the Janeites, I happened across two Facebook groups whose titles encapsulated a common set of attitudes...
Deborah YaffeApr 9, 2018Gateway to Austen's educationFew are the places with genuine Jane Austen connections. Austen’s birthplace, Steventon Rectory, was razed in the nineteenth century;...
Deborah YaffeApr 5, 2018On this day in 1809. . .Thirty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Publishers jerk authors around. This is not exactly news,...
Deborah YaffeApr 2, 2018Down on Up LitOne of the most useful sentences Jane Austen ever wrote is surely this one: “Pictures of perfection as you know make me sick & wicked.”...