Family dinner
As we sit down to our turkey tonight, perhaps in company with relatives or acquaintances whom we carefully avoid the rest of the year,...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 25, 2019
Sneak previews
The new year is shaping up as a happy one for Janeites, at least American ones, since it will usher in two new Austen adaptations – the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 21, 2019
Happy Christmas to all!
Disaster averted! Collision avoided! Christmas catastrophe curtailed! Last month, as blog readers will recall, it appeared that the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 18, 2019
On this day in 1798. . .
Forty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. For devotees of the Tom-Lefroy-was-the-love-of-Jane-Austen’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 14, 2019
Hands off!
Why do people keep trying to mess with Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s 1995 movie, which updated the story of Emma to high school in Beverly...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 11, 2019
Riding high
By now, Jane Austen has made so many top-novel lists that it’s hard to come up with anything new to say when she makes yet another one....
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 7, 2019
The sound of (Austen) music
Music plays intermittent cameo roles in Jane Austen’s novels: think of Mary Bennet delighting us long enough in Pride and Prejudice, or...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 4, 2019
Strange bedfellows
By now, we’ve gotten used to seeing Jane Austen in rather. . . um . . . interesting company. She’s been paired with zombies and sea...
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