Deborah YaffeJul 29, 2019Greatest Hits, Part IThe Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...
Deborah YaffeJul 25, 2019Still readingThe fascinating Reading with Austen project, a digital recreation of Edward Austen Knight’s library at Godmersham Park in Kent, got some...
Deborah YaffeJul 22, 2019Chawton cottage at seventySeventy years ago this week, the premier Janeite pilgrimage site welcomed its first pilgrims. On July 23, 1949, Chawton cottage, the...
Deborah YaffeJul 18, 2019Subcontinental AustenSouth Asians never seem to tire of Jane Austen. We’ve had an Indian TV show based on Sense and Sensibility. We’ve screened cinematic...
Deborah YaffeJul 15, 2019On this day in 1816. . .Forty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s brothers were a reproductively prolific lot, at...
Deborah YaffeJul 11, 2019Beach readingIt’s always encouraging when excellent contemporary writers turn out to have great taste in literature (i.e., taste that agrees with my...
Deborah YaffeJul 8, 2019Oh, those clothes. . The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...
Deborah YaffeJul 4, 2019Free to be. . .On this holiday of freedom from tyranny, including the tyranny of conventional expectations, it seems appropriate to spend a moment...
Deborah YaffeJul 1, 2019Too darn hotThe dog days of summer are approaching, and perhaps that’s why the amount of Stupid Jane Austen Stuff coming my way seems to have ramped...