Deborah YaffeDec 31, 2018NineteenNineteen is a number much on our collective minds today, as we prepare to usher in 2019, the last year of the second decade of the...
Deborah YaffeDec 27, 2018GhostsThe voracious interest in all things Jane Austen has inspired plenty of scholarship about her ancestors and her collateral descendants –...
Deborah YaffeDec 24, 2018'Twas the night before ChristmasTomorrow is Christmas, the day on which a larger-than-life personage employing semi-equine transport suddenly appears in our homes,...
Deborah YaffeDec 20, 2018An embarrassment of Austen statuesEighteen months ago, not a single statue of Jane Austen was on public display anywhere in the world. And now, it appears, we will soon...
Deborah YaffeDec 17, 2018On this day in 1816. . .Fortieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s not always easy to tell when Jane Austen, master of irony,...
Deborah YaffeDec 13, 2018Desperately seeking romance in Jane AustenVirginia Woolf famously wrote of Jane Austen that “of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” Let...
Deborah YaffeDec 10, 2018P&P: MulticulturalJane Austen’s mature work features only one character of color: the teenaged West Indian heiress Miss Lambe, “half mulatto, chilly and...
Deborah YaffeDec 6, 2018Live like JaneJane Austen was a novelist, not an accountant, therapist, scientist, or priest. But you wouldn’t know it from the array of books...
Deborah YaffeDec 3, 2018Austen connectionsAt this point in Jane Austen’s career of pop-culture celebrity, it’s no surprise that every place with even a tangential connection to...