Deborah YaffeDec 30, 2019Model cityNow this is a community event I can get behind. Over the weekend of January 10-12, the city of Modesto in California’s Central Valley is...
Deborah YaffeDec 26, 2019On this day in 1798. . .Fiftieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The holiday season can be difficult for those of us who find...
Deborah YaffeDec 23, 2019Janeite dream job par excellenceAnother of those Janeite dream jobs -- arguably, the biggest Janeite dream job of them all -- has opened up: Jane Austen’s House Museum,...
Deborah YaffeDec 19, 2019Still missingToday’s Jane Austen happening is what hasn’t happened yet: Almost exactly three years after an artist engraved tiny portraits of Jane...
Deborah YaffeDec 16, 2019Sanditon farewell?Jane Austen experienced her share of literary rejection. One publisher declined even to look at the manuscript that eventually became...
Deborah YaffeDec 12, 2019What would Jane Austen say?“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance,” I texted my husband. I was not providing dampening commentary on our nearly...
Deborah YaffeDec 9, 2019FruitcakeAs the holidays approach, you may be bracing for the arrival of that winter perennial, the fruitcake -- baked months earlier, soaked in...
Deborah YaffeDec 5, 2019Jane Austen's side hustleThese days, it takes a lot for an instance of Austenian inaccuracy to surprise me. I hardly turn a hair when quotes from Austen screen...
Deborah YaffeDec 2, 2019Man and snowmenMy husband seems befuddled, even a tad shell-shocked. His maiden viewing of a Jane Austen-themed Hallmark Christmas movie – Sense,...
