Model city
Now 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 26, 2019
On 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 Yaffe
- Dec 23, 2019
Janeite dream job par excellence
Another of those Janeite dream jobs -- arguably, the biggest Janeite dream job of them all -- has opened up: Jane Austen’s House Museum,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 19, 2019
Still missing
Today’s Jane Austen happening is what hasn’t happened yet: Almost exactly three years after an artist engraved tiny portraits of Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 16, 2019
Sanditon farewell?
Jane Austen experienced her share of literary rejection. One publisher declined even to look at the manuscript that eventually became...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 12, 2019
What 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 Yaffe
- Dec 5, 2019
Jane Austen's side hustle
These 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 Yaffe
- Dec 2, 2019
Man and snowmen
My husband seems befuddled, even a tad shell-shocked. His maiden viewing of a Jane Austen-themed Hallmark Christmas movie – Sense,...
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