Deborah YaffeOct 29, 2018Janeite Christmas at HallmarkThey say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. So perhaps the...
Deborah YaffeOct 25, 2018Mockingbird in a landslideCan I get half credit? As blog readers will recall, last week I predicted (correctly, as it turned out) that Pride and Prejudice,...
Deborah YaffeOct 22, 2018In Edward's libraryIn September 1813, Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra, from their brother Edward’s library at Godmersham Park in Kent. As regular...
Deborah YaffeOct 18, 2018The envelope, please. . .When midnight strikes on the west coast tonight, something momentous will take place: Voting will close in PBS’s Great American Read...
Deborah YaffeOct 15, 2018From PhD to CEOThe transformation of Chawton House from purely academic destination into full-service Janeite tourist draw continues: The stately home...
Deborah YaffeOct 11, 2018On this day in 1813. . .Thirty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Some writers fill their letters with detailed responses to...
Deborah YaffeOct 8, 2018Unfinished businessJane Austen’s books – usually Pride and Prejudice, sometimes Emma, occasionally one of the others -- perennially land on those...
Deborah YaffeOct 4, 2018Emma, live and on filmMusical theater is an expensive art form, and fans on a budget – or those who live far from the major cities where original productions...
Deborah YaffeOct 1, 2018MismatchJane Austen’s novels are filled with marital mismatches. Clever, sardonic Mr. Bennet treats Mrs. Bennet with thinly veiled disrespect. In...