Deborah YaffeFeb 28, 2019Enough alreadyIs it possible to have too much Jane Austen? Apparently, the good citizens of Winchester, England, think it is. Last fall, Winchester...
Deborah YaffeFeb 25, 2019BewitchedAmong Janeites, the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice is . . . controversial. Purists, especially those old enough to have seen an...
Deborah YaffeFeb 21, 2019Sanditon's SidneyProduction of the new television adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is moving along even more...
Deborah YaffeFeb 18, 2019What's your name again?It’s always enjoyable when the mass media provide opportunities for us Janeites to snark about everyone else’s Austen ignorance. Today’s...
Deborah YaffeFeb 14, 2019The dating gameValentine’s Day, the celebration of lovers, dates back to the Middle Ages. Yet Jane Austen – often described as the mother of the romance...
Deborah YaffeFeb 11, 2019Pop v. popularJane Austen is popular, but is she pop? This pressing question presented itself irresistibly when, just in time for Valentine’s Day, I...
Deborah YaffeFeb 7, 2019Sanditon inches closer to the small screenJane Austen wrote only seventy pages of Sanditon before her final illness left her unable to work. In the intervening two centuries, her...
Deborah YaffeFeb 4, 2019Jane Austen meets The Breakfast ClubIt’s not every day that Jane Austen turns up in a teen sex comedy. So imagine my pleased surprise last week as I was watching the final...
