November - 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

The long-awaited Longbourn?

Last month brought the sad news that an eagerly awaited Austen adaptation – the Searchlight Pictures version of Persuasion, starring...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 29, 2021

Sixty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Jane Austen’s nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, who wrote...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 25, 2021

In the social world of Jane Austen’s Regency, young people navigated a complex set of unwritten rules for managing friendship and...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 22, 2021

Once again, it’s time for every Janeite’s favorite sport: eying up palatial real estate with tangential Jane Austen associations. Today’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 18, 2021

“Lindsay declared her love for Jane Austen on the set of ‘Winter House,’ ” my daily Google alert for Our Jane informed me the other week....

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 15, 2021

Last year, as George Floyd’s murder sparked a racial reckoning around the globe, the public humanities collaborative Jane Austen & Co....

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 11, 2021

We EngLit types are not always as adept at math as we are at literary analysis. But we’ll need to brush up our arithmetical skills this...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 8, 2021

Is the pandemic over yet? The answer, of course, depends on where you live, but one hopeful sign that some of us are partway back to...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 4, 2021

It’s the start of a new month, and thus the perfect time to update some old stories: * All dressed up: Over the summer, New York...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 1, 2021