Deborah YaffeSep 29, 2022Lucky thirteenThirty-nine years ago, during my first semester of college, I took the train from New Haven to Philadelphia to attend my first Jane...
Deborah YaffeSep 26, 2022EnsemblesOver the summer, when Janeites weren’t arguing about the controversial new Netflix adaptation of Persuasion, many were praising the...
Deborah YaffeSep 22, 2022A milestone farewellMGM’s 1940 movie of Pride and Prejudice was the first screen adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, and with its Victorian fashions,...
Deborah YaffeSep 19, 2022Reading Austen in high placesA few months ago, I noted that the British royal family appears to include a critical mass of women who are crazy about Jane Austen. (Or...
Deborah YaffeSep 15, 2022Broadening the collectionThe last time the pioneering feminist writer Mary Wollstonecraft was the subject of a public fundraising effort, the results were...
Deborah YaffeSep 12, 2022Jane Austen in love . . . maybeNine months have passed since we learned the happy news that a cache of priceless books and manuscripts, including two Jane Austen...
Deborah YaffeSep 8, 2022Laying the tableFrom time to time, a particular news item brings a snippet of Jane Austen’s wisdom forcibly to mind – such a snippet as, say, “One half...
Deborah YaffeSep 5, 2022Aging outLast week, a beautiful young woman ended her longstanding romantic relationship with a good-looking guy old enough to be her father. Or...
Deborah YaffeSep 1, 2022On this day in 1796. . .Seventy-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In December of 1775, the Rev. George Austen wrote to a...
