Down Under Austen
For Janeites, the highlight of this month’s online social calendar was the Jane Austen Society of North America’s first-ever virtual...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 26, 2020
Chawton cottage panorama
Pandemic life has made clear, at least to me, that online interactions are no substitute for the in-real-life kind. Still, it’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 22, 2020
Pandemic project
Back in March, a trio of young British academics decided to counteract the loneliness and isolation of lockdown by producing a series of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 19, 2020
Taking Pride
The past eighteen months have brought us a couple of made-for-the-small-screen Jane Austen spinoffs: the Lifetime movie Pride and...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 15, 2020
On this day in 1813. . .
Fifty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. “Only think of Mrs Holder’s being dead!” Jane Austen wrote...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 12, 2020
Even sandier
Sanditon, the much-hyped TV adaptation of the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is probably not getting a second season,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 8, 2020
Window shopping
Even before the coronavirus curtailed recreational travel, the Internet-assisted ogling of Jane Austen-adjacent real estate was one of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 5, 2020
Deck the halls
After the year we’ve had, we’re all going to deserve a holiday-season treat. And it looks like the Janeites among us will be getting one....
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 1, 2020
Breaking news!
Mark your calendars, Janeites! The day we’ve barely dared to imagine in our most fervid fantasies is nearly here! On October 28, we’ll...
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