Deborah YaffeJun 28, 2018Bringing up the rearSix months ago, author and scholar Sarah Emsley launched a blog series dedicated to the two Austen novels marking their bicentenary this...
Deborah YaffeJun 25, 2018Graphing the plotBack in high school, I did reasonably well in math. I may have trouble balancing my checkbook these days, but I promise I’m not one of...
Deborah YaffeJun 21, 2018A statue for ChawtonThe Hampshire village of Chawton is the mecca of the Janeite faith: the community where Austen spent the last eight years of her life,...
Deborah YaffeJun 18, 2018Ready for its closeupsA couple of months ago, when Jane Austen’s House Museum unveiled the results of the collaborative quilting project it organized to...
Deborah YaffeJun 14, 2018Still missingIn the annals of news-that-isn’t-exactly-new, the year 1975 holds a special place. That fall, the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco...
Deborah YaffeJun 11, 2018On this day in 1799. . .Thirty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The story of Jane Austen fandom has been told more than...
Deborah YaffeJun 7, 2018Inspiring Janeite PRAs a fan of not only Jane Austen but also the Jane Austen Society of North America (member since 1981), I was pleased to see JASNA pop up...
Deborah YaffeJun 4, 2018Another dogEvery now and again, along comes a Jane Austen adaptation, spinoff, or fanfic that, in its wishful thinking and reassuring punch-pulling,...