Keeping up with the Janeites
I don’t speak Kardashian. I have trouble distinguishing among the K-named females of the clan, disentangling the one who married Kanye...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 26, 2019
Janeite on the Potomac, Part II
Bipartisanship is sadly rare in Washington these days, so it’s refreshing to find one instance of agreement across the aisle, even in...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 23, 2019
A Jane Austen Christmas mystery
See that headline? The one right above this blog post? I’m kind of proud of it. Doesn’t it totally sound like it could be the title of a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 19, 2019
By the seaside
A few weeks ago, as ITV began airing a much-hyped miniseries based on Sanditon, the seaside novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 16, 2019
Pictures at an exhibition
Is Michelle Obama a Janeite? As far as I’m aware, no documentation exists to settle the question either way. But circumstantial evidence...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 12, 2019
Among the Janeites, via First Impressions
Writing is a solitary job, so it’s always satisfying to discover that someone out there has read – even liked! – your words. So imagine...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 9, 2019
On this day in 1814. . .
Forty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s letters, with their unpolished emphasis on...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 5, 2019
Hunting for Easter eggs
Two episodes of the much-hyped TV adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, have aired in Britain over...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 2, 2019
A Janeite in STEM
All the talk these days about the decline of the humanities can be pretty depressing for us English-major types, who persist in believing...
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