March - 2021

The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Happy birthday indeed

For 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 Yaffe

Mar 29, 2021

These days, Jane Austen enthusiasts are often typecast as college girls swooning over Matthew Macfadyen, or middle-aged women dressing up...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 25, 2021

The world of the British aristocracy can seem very small indeed. Witness this month’s auction of items from the estate of the late...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 22, 2021

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 Yaffe

Mar 18, 2021

It’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 Yaffe

Mar 15, 2021

Five years ago, I wrote a magazine article about the controversy over Woodrow Wilson’s repugnant racial views – an aspect of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 11, 2021

We 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 Yaffe

Mar 8, 2021

The 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 Yaffe

Mar 4, 2021

It’s a well-established Janeite practice to name children and pets after Austen characters: while researching my book Among the Janeites,...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 1, 2021