Deborah YaffeMay 31, 2018Excellent women novelistsJane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, as all good Janeites know, but it’s another prominent medieval English church that will...
Deborah YaffeMay 28, 2018Proust questionnaire for a JaneiteLast month, as blog readers will recall, a non-profit executive and Janeite with the extraordinarily appropriate name of Janet Austin was...
Deborah YaffeMay 24, 2018On this day in 1813. . .Thirty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Although Jane Austen was, famously, not a big fan of Bath,...
Deborah YaffeMay 21, 2018Time for a mental health dayIt’s been quite a while since I last discussed the unfortunate phenomenon of faux-Jane Austen quotes, usually originating in Jane Austen...
Deborah YaffeMay 17, 2018Austenland for real?Over the years, I’ve swooned about Austen-linked real estate coming up for sale or rent. Perhaps I have said things like, “If money were...
Deborah YaffeMay 14, 2018The beautiful grounds at PemberleyBy now, pretty much every Janeite in the known universe has seen the moment in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...
Deborah YaffeMay 10, 2018The Darwinian AustenIf only “literary Darwinism” had existed when I was in school, I might have liked science a whole lot more. Yes, according to a story on...
Deborah YaffeMay 7, 2018P&P for foodiesJane Austen’s mature novels are not, by and large, very foodie. Although important scenes occur over meals – think Mary Crawford’s...
Deborah YaffeMay 3, 2018Judge JaneApparently, judges just love Jane Austen. Or so Ohio State University Professor Matthew H. Birkhold claims in a recent article in the...