Deborah YaffeMar 29, 2021Happy birthday indeedFor most people, this past year has been at best pretty bad and at worst utterly tragic. On the bright side, however, the challenge of...
Deborah YaffeMar 25, 2021Mars and VenusThese days, Jane Austen enthusiasts are often typecast as college girls swooning over Matthew Macfadyen, or middle-aged women dressing up...
Deborah YaffeMar 22, 2021Small worldThe world of the British aristocracy can seem very small indeed. Witness this month’s auction of items from the estate of the late...
Deborah YaffeMar 18, 2021Jane Austen wrote here?If you spend a lot of time online, it can sometimes seem that every house for sale in England has a tangential Jane Austen connection...
Deborah YaffeMar 15, 2021Sanditon fans build a second seasonIt’s been more than a year since the producers of Sanditon announced that the show, a TV mini-series based on the novel Jane Austen left...
Deborah YaffeMar 11, 2021Old issues, new questionsFive years ago, I wrote a magazine article about the controversy over Woodrow Wilson’s repugnant racial views – an aspect of the...
Deborah YaffeMar 8, 2021Janeites from eight to eighty-eightWe Janeites like to say that Austen’s novels can be enjoyed at any age, albeit in different ways, and seldom has a week’s news brought...
Deborah YaffeMar 4, 2021More name-droppingThe virtual ink had barely dried on my recent blog post about a questionable list of Jane Austen-themed names for baby boys when I...
Deborah YaffeMar 1, 2021Name-droppingIt’s a well-established Janeite practice to name children and pets after Austen characters: while researching my book Among the Janeites,...
