March - 2022

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

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...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 31, 2022

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 28, 2022

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 24, 2022

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 21, 2022

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 17, 2022

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 14, 2022

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 10, 2022

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 7, 2022

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...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 3, 2022