Deborah YaffeAug 30, 2020Mutton and rhubarbJane Austen seems to have spent as little time as possible in the kitchen, leaving the cooking to the women she lived with and the...
Deborah YaffeAug 26, 2020New and/or improvedBy now, we would all be happy to consign 2020 to the trash bin of history. Let’s reboot! Remake! Recycle and replace! Alas, another four...
Deborah YaffeAug 23, 2020AKADid Jane Austen want the world to know her name? It’s a complicated question. In January 1796, in a letter to her sister, Cassandra, the...
Deborah YaffeAug 19, 2020Who's in?Three years ago, blog readers will recall, a branch of the UK’s Society of Young Publishers sponsored a Jane Austen pub quiz – i.e., a...
Deborah YaffeAug 16, 2020A Janeite recoversEarlier this summer, it looked like COVID would take the life of a seventy-three-year-old British lawyer named Geoff Woolf. During his...
Deborah YaffeAug 12, 2020Austen mathRemind me: How many novels did Jane Austen write, again? Just kidding! Yes, of course, the answer is six. But if you didn’t know that...
Deborah YaffeAug 9, 2020ParchedI haven’t set foot in a movie theater in five months. (March 7. Multiplex up the road from here. The new adaptation of Emma, a pretty...
Deborah YaffeAug 5, 2020Mr. Darcy, harasser?Jane Austen has been used and abused in so many different ways by now, pressed into service to sell everything from perfume to romance...
Deborah YaffeAug 2, 2020Masked and AustentatiousThe proliferation of face masks in every conceivable style, color, fabric, and design is either an encouraging sign of inexhaustible...
