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Jane Austen lived a very long time ago, in a world whose gender roles, social conditions, and technological context are largely alien to...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 23, 2020
Cash for cream teas and champagne
The havoc that pandemic lockdown has wreaked on an array of arts and cultural organizations is old news by now. Janeites have seen a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 20, 2020
Dining out
I don’t know about you, but I miss dinner parties. You remember dinner parties: those occasions on which you gathered with friends –...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 16, 2020
Reckoning with the past
By now, it’s no surprise to find Jane Austen’s name surfacing in discussions of Britain’s unsavory imperial history: The debate over the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 13, 2020
Passing Go
In case you were wondering how high the bar for Janeite gift-giving could be set, wonder no longer: Josh Jordan, a twenty-nine-year-old...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 10, 2020
Festival weekend
Just a reminder that this weekend will be an exciting one for Janeites: the online version of the popular Jane Austen Festival–held, in...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 9, 2020
Happy birthday, JAS
A thousand years ago – or, actually, back in January – the big Janeite news of 2020 was shaping up to be the eightieth anniversary of the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 6, 2020
The Watsons, reborn
Among the Janeite casualties of pandemic lockdown was the planned West End production of The Watsons, Laura Wade’s much-praised...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 2, 2020
Back to the gardens
The world continues to take baby steps toward reopening after quarantine. For Janeites, the latest encouraging sign is that the gardens...
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