Deborah YaffeJul 30, 2018UnpersuadedPride and Prejudice isn’t just Jane Austen’s most famous and popular novel. Of all her stories, it’s also the best suited to modern-dress...
Deborah YaffeJul 26, 2018On this day in 1809. . .Thirty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters As a novelist, Jane Austen was one of the greatest writers...
Deborah YaffeJul 23, 2018The price of Austen tourismLast summer, not long after the July 18 bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, officials in the English town of Basingstoke announced that...
Deborah YaffeJul 19, 2018Tiara time againIt’s been almost four years since we had a reason to put “Jane Austen” and “beauty pageant” in the same sentence. Frankly, we were...
Deborah YaffeJul 16, 2018Austen karaokeRecently – OK, it was two weeks ago – I found occasion to mention an old journalists’ joke: that three examples of a phenomenon...
Deborah YaffeJul 12, 2018Davies does SanditonFor the Jane Austen world, it qualifies as blockbuster news: Revered screenwriter Andrew Davies, the man behind the iconic 1995 BBC...
Deborah YaffeJul 9, 2018Remembering feminist historyIn Jane Austen’s time, as we know, women’s lives and opportunities were circumscribed in ways we can scarcely imagine today. Women were...
Deborah YaffeJul 5, 2018What's in a name?Shakespeare’s ardent fans are called Bardolators, not Willcolytes. Dickens admirers are Dickensians, not Chuck-a-holics. Devotees of...
Deborah YaffeJul 2, 2018Trend-spottingWe journalists like to joke that once you have three examples of something – avocado toast! Suburban sex-toy parties! -- you can write a...