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For those of us who are impatient to see the latest Jane Austen-inspired TV movie – i.e., for Janeites whose boundless optimism remains...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 25, 2019
Jane the dragon
Tanya Gold hates Jane Austen. She told us so earlier this week, in a piece published on the media platform UnHerd, whose goal is “to...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 22, 2019
Back in Winchester. . .
The cathedral city of Winchester, England, seems to have a love-hate relationship with Jane Austen. Or so we might assume from the odd...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 18, 2019
Julian Assange, Janeite?
Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is a controversial man. Depending on your point of view, he’s either a valiant freedom fighter...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 15, 2019
Speedy delivery
As regular blog readers know, I have found it difficult to say anything positive about the recent spate of Jane Austen-inspired TV...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 11, 2019
On this day in 1805. . .
Forty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. "It is a period, indeed!” Captain Wentworth exclaims to Anne...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 8, 2019
Jane Austen's first critic
For Janeites, it’s salt rubbed in a wound: the news that scholars will soon be able to inspect a fascinating trove of letters from an...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 4, 2019
Statues, statues everywhere
Remember back in elementary school, when one kid would get an awesome new toy or a cool pair of shoes, and then everybody had to have...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 1, 2019
CliffsNotes for kiddies
I am all in favor of introducing young people to great literature, even great literature they are probably too young to fully appreciate....
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