Deborah YaffeOct 28, 2021Boo!It’s the scary season – ghosts, witches, creaking doors in haunted houses. For Janeites, however, the Internet’s frightening capacity to...
Deborah YaffeOct 25, 2021Selling Scarlets, againWe Janeites would kill to live in an Austen-linked stately home. That goes without saying. But – is it possible that such properties are...
Deborah YaffeOct 21, 2021Failure to persuade“You can never have too much Persuasion,” I opined three months ago, as each day seemed to bring a new announcement of a forthcoming...
Deborah YaffeOct 18, 2021On this day in 1815. . .Sixty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Last month, I noted that Jane Austen’s account of a...
Deborah YaffeOct 14, 2021Listening in on Chawton HouseLast summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...
Deborah YaffeOct 11, 2021BrassJane Austen, it seems, is the go-to novelist for anyone who wants to write about money. In 1937, the poet W.H. Auden famously remarked...
Deborah YaffeOct 7, 2021Dancing with WilloughbyWho’s Your Favorite Darcy is, by now, a classic Janeite pastime, pitting fervent Firthians against zealous MacFadyenites, while small but...
Deborah YaffeOct 4, 2021Not In Jane's BackyardBetween her father’s death in January 1805 and her move into Chawton cottage in July 1809, Jane Austen was . . . not homeless, certainly,...
