A newly planted Austen society
Like a Janeite version of Johnny Appleseed, the British-Pakistani journalist and writer Laaleen Sukhera seems to be making a habit of...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 28, 2022
Beach trip
If you prefer your Jane Austen adaptations to be set in the Regency, it’s shaping up to be a good year: Sanditon’s second season has...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 24, 2022
Love hurts
The sting of rejection is an emotion whose nuances Jane Austen understood well – whether the agony of the jilted Marianne Dashwood (“Good...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 21, 2022
Sharing a cuppa
Just a few days ago, I returned from a visit to family in England. In my natural habitat, I’m not much of a tea drinker; absent a sore...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 17, 2022
Bonnetfest
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away – in other words, in mid-2019 -- I wrote about a traveling exhibition of costumes from Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 14, 2022
On this day in 1817. . .
Seventy-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters The letter that Jane Austen wrote to her 11-year-old niece...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 10, 2022
Eunice the Menace
Last month, a storm named Eunice ravaged large swathes of Europe. In the UK, which was hit especially hard, three people were killed,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 7, 2022
Of castles and chakras
When NBC announced last month that it had changed the name of its new Regency-themed dating show from Pride and Prejudice: An Experiment...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 3, 2022
CryptoJane
Back in 2013, when the Bank of England announced that Jane Austen would be the face of the £10 note, little did we know that less than a...
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