Deborah YaffeAug 29, 2022Diving deepWe Janeites like to say that Austen’s novels repay slow and careful perusal, and that every time we reread, we discover something new....
Deborah YaffeAug 25, 2022Jane Austen triageThe first sentence of Pride and Prejudice turns up everywhere, most commonly a) when a journalist who doesn’t know much about Jane Austen...
Deborah YaffeAug 22, 2022Thin gruelEarly last Tuesday morning, I opened up my phone to Wordle, the now-famous daily word-finding puzzle, and typed my usual starting guess:...
Deborah YaffeAug 18, 2022On this day in 1814. . .Seventy-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. “Write what you know,” aspiring authors are counseled in...
Deborah YaffeAug 15, 2022Sale in Aisle AAttention, bargain hunters! Five years ago, you would have needed £9 million (about $11 million) to buy Luckington Court, the Cotswolds...
Deborah YaffeAug 11, 2022Still talkingIt’s never a bad time to talk about Persuasion–really, what are you doing that’s more important?--but right now may be an especially good...
Deborah YaffeAug 8, 2022Family lettersAs we Janeites know to our sorrow, only 160 of Jane Austen’s letters survive, and some of those are filled with details that mean little...
Deborah YaffeAug 4, 2022A surfeit of sequelsJane Austen never wrote a sequel. Among her many excellent qualities was a sure sense of when to leave well enough alone. Alas, too many...
Deborah YaffeAug 1, 2022As seen by AIJane Austen famously supplies few physical descriptions of her characters – little beyond eye color, hair color, or relative height, and...
