Deborah YaffeMay 31, 2021On this day in 1811. . . Sixty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Jane Austen was perfectly capable of writing a sensitive...
Deborah YaffeMay 27, 2021Austen-linked fixer-upperBy now, I’m used to reading real estate listings that hype every tiniest link to Jane Austen: An oast house on a farm where her father...
Deborah YaffeMay 24, 2021Reboot, bootedBack in late 2019, when corona was just a neighborhood in Queens, the news broke that Hollywood was considering a television reboot of...
Deborah YaffeMay 20, 2021Clueless no moreLast month, we Janeites felt a tad confused -- dare I say clueless? -- when Netflix and MRC Entertainment announced plans to produce a...
Deborah YaffeMay 17, 2021One hundred candlesBack in 2011, when the research for my book Among the Janeites took me on the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual tour of...
Deborah YaffeMay 13, 2021Data storage, the Jane Austen wayAnyone whose college papers reside on now-unreadable floppy disks has probably wondered whether the human race is on the brink of an...
Deborah YaffeMay 10, 2021Be careful what you wish forThe #Sisterhood, it seemed, had won. For more than a year, the online fandom known as the #SanditonSisterhood has lobbied tirelessly for...
Deborah YaffeMay 6, 2021Interrogating an interrogationAmong my many Janeite pet peeves is the caricaturing of Austen fans as prudish ultraconservatives who stick their fingers in their ears...
Deborah YaffeMay 3, 2021Fifty Shades of AnneYears ago, when the Harper Collins Austen Project was announcing which contemporary authors would undertake its modernizations of Austen...
