Deborah YaffeNov 29, 2021The long-awaited Longbourn?Last month brought the sad news that an eagerly awaited Austen adaptation – the Searchlight Pictures version of Persuasion, starring...
Deborah YaffeNov 25, 2021On this day in 1798. . . Sixty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Jane Austen’s nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh, who wrote the...
Deborah YaffeNov 22, 2021Talking about "talking"In the social world of Jane Austen’s Regency, young people navigated a complex set of unwritten rules for managing friendship and...
Deborah YaffeNov 18, 2021Another mansion for saleOnce again, it’s time for every Janeite’s favorite sport: eying up palatial real estate with tangential Jane Austen associations. Today’s...
Deborah YaffeNov 15, 2021Crossed wires“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 YaffeNov 11, 2021Austen and AsiaLast year, as George Floyd’s murder sparked a racial reckoning around the globe, the public humanities collaborative Jane Austen & Co....
Deborah YaffeNov 8, 2021Time travelWe 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 YaffeNov 4, 2021Normal-ishIs 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 YaffeNov 1, 2021While you were sleeping. . .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...
