Deborah YaffeMar 31, 2022A newly planted Austen societyLike a Janeite version of Johnny Appleseed, the British-Pakistani journalist and writer Laaleen Sukhera seems to be making a habit of...
Deborah YaffeMar 28, 2022Beach tripIf 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 YaffeMar 24, 2022Love hurtsThe sting of rejection is an emotion whose nuances Jane Austen understood well – whether the agony of the jilted Marianne Dashwood (“Good...
Deborah YaffeMar 21, 2022Sharing a cuppaJust 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 YaffeMar 17, 2022BonnetfestA 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 YaffeMar 14, 2022On 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 YaffeMar 10, 2022Eunice the MenaceLast month, a storm named Eunice ravaged large swathes of Europe. In the UK, which was hit especially hard, three people were killed,...
Deborah YaffeMar 7, 2022Of castles and chakrasWhen NBC announced last month that it had changed the name of its new Regency-themed dating show from Pride and Prejudice: An Experiment...
Deborah YaffeMar 3, 2022CryptoJaneBack 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...