Deborah YaffeOct 31, 2019Lydia the leopardI really should cease being surprised by how indiscriminately purveyors of goods and services slap the name “Jane Austen” onto items with...
Deborah YaffeOct 28, 2019Record-settingJane Austen’s work is, of course, a priceless gift to world culture. But she also pays some more quantifiable dividends, as the latest...
Deborah YaffeOct 24, 2019On this day in 1808. . .Forty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. When Jane Austen sat down to write a letter to her sister,...
Deborah YaffeOct 21, 2019Going, going. . .Once again, it’s time to cue a chorus of “If I Were A Rich Janeite”: another Austen artifact is on the market, set to be auctioned on...
Deborah YaffeOct 17, 2019Christmas mystery solvedLast month, as blog readers will recall, we jointly pondered a Jane Austen Christmas mystery: why a made-for-TV movie named Sense,...
Deborah YaffeOct 14, 2019Second bananasWe Janeites may love Austen’s heroes and heroines, but it’s her secondary characters who make us laugh out loud. Fanny Dashwood’s...
Deborah YaffeOct 10, 2019Liar, liarIn David Lodge’s classic 1975 academic novel Changing Places, the English-professor characters discuss a game of intellectual chicken...
Deborah YaffeOct 7, 2019Yet more on-screen AustenI recognize that not everyone craves another Jane Austen-themed screen drama. Some may have balked at the all! sex! all! the! time! hype...
Deborah YaffeOct 3, 2019Forty years and countingIt’s that time again, Janeites: The Jane Austen Society of North America is holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) over the next four...