Deborah YaffeSep 30, 2021Autumn footstepsWandering around the English countryside in early autumn while talking about literature: sounds idyllic, no? And so I sighed enviously as...
Deborah YaffeSep 27, 2021The opposite of speed readingHow long does it take to read a Jane Austen novel? At roughly three hundred pages apiece, her books are far shorter than the works of...
Deborah YaffeSep 23, 2021Timeless heroine“Mouni Roy Dresses Like A Jane Austen Heroine In Her Latest Photoshoot And Totally Nails It,” proclaimed a recent headline on the website...
Deborah YaffeSep 20, 2021Pricey, and pricelessIt’s always nice to know that other people value Our Jane the way we do. Like, value her in dollars. Last week, as blog readers will...
Deborah YaffeSep 16, 2021On this day in 1813. . .Sixty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Nostalgia for Jane Austen’s era has always struck me as...
Deborah YaffeSep 13, 2021Austens with a pedigreeOwning first editions of Jane Austen’s novels – ideally, as I’ve noted before, of all Jane Austen’s novels – must be . . . pretty cool....
Deborah YaffeSep 9, 2021Balls in the airAh, the passive voice. It conceals a multitude of sins. The other day, I happened across one of my favorite genres of newspaper story:...
Deborah YaffeSep 6, 2021Required readingLast week, a British judge imposed an unusual sentence on a young man convicted of possessing terrorism-related materials. "Have you read...
Deborah YaffeSep 2, 2021Forever CherFor an actor, it must be frustrating to realize that you will be remembered almost solely for a role you played at the age of eighteen....
