Deborah YaffeFeb 27, 2020Completist completesApparently, I’m not the only Jane Austen completist out there. Last week, as blog readers will recall, the New York auction house Swann...
Deborah YaffeFeb 24, 2020Emma fashionistaThe new feature-film adaptation of Emma opened this past weekend, but not, alas, in my neck of the woods, where we proles must wait until...
Deborah YaffeFeb 20, 2020On this day in 1817. . .Fifty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s no secret that Jane Austen held a jaundiced view of the...
Deborah YaffeFeb 17, 2020The big eventWe’re just days away from one of the year’s big Janeite events: Friday’s U.S. opening of the new feature film adaptation of Emma, a week...
Deborah YaffeFeb 13, 2020The price of perfectionI was born with a completist gene. I like to finish things up – books, TV series, leftovers. I like to own full sets of things. I abhor...
Deborah YaffeFeb 10, 2020Miss Austen disposesAnother day, another Jane Austen event I wish I could attend. Tomorrow, Gill Hornby, whose new novel Miss Austen explores the...
Deborah YaffeFeb 6, 2020LovebitesMaking a mistake in print, and being forced to acknowledge it publicly in the corrections column: It’s every journalist’s nightmare. And...
Deborah YaffeFeb 3, 2020New views at Chawton HouseThe reimagining of Chawton House, the Austen-connected stately home and research library in Hampshire, England, continues apace – which...
