Scary monsters
Happy Halloween, Janeites! Although Austen wrote no scenes of trick-or-treating, pumpkin-carving, or gorging on candy corn, she certainly...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 27, 2022
Read all about it
Like most writers, Jane Austen was a reader, avidly consuming the poetry, fiction, and non-fiction prose of her day. Her letters offer...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 24, 2022
On this day in 1798. . .
Eightieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Nowadays, an unpublished writer can upload her...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 20, 2022
Drinking game
This fall and winter, every Janeite workweek starts with “Austen Monday”—the evening on which the Rosenbach, Philadelphia’s museum and...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 13, 2022
The pendulum swings
The smashing success of Netflix’s Bridgerton has ushered in a new era of multiracial casting in Regency costume dramas. This is good...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 10, 2022
Expensive thrills
For Janeites, the Austen First Edition Thrill-o-Meter is calibrated something like this: Biggest Thrill: Austen novel first edition owned...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 6, 2022
Ahead of his time
Janeites first discover Jane Austen at different moments in their lives. I’ve talked with people who read her first in a high school or...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 3, 2022
The Austen MBA
We all read Jane Austen for different reasons. (I wrote a whole book about this phenomenon.) Some read her for the lucidity of her...
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