December - 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

Dinner time

A common Janeite fantasy goes like this: You meet Jane Austen. Naturally, she finds you interesting and delightful. You get her take on,...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 29, 2022

Just in case all the usual reasons to admire Ukrainians -- courage, grit, unshakeable commitment to democracy – aren’t enough for you,...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 26, 2022

Although Jane Austen’s novels never commanded huge print runs – the biggest, for Emma, totaled only two thousand copies -- Austen first...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 22, 2022

As Christmas approaches, the internet has been filling our Janeite stockings with tidbits of Austen-related news: --Ahoy, there: Last...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 19, 2022

After a year that brought not one but two same-sex updates of Pride and Prejudice, we probably don’t need further proof that the queering...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 15, 2022

By now, we know that the Pride and Prejudice formula—opposites attract, enemies to lovers, snobby-meets-snarky—accommodates many...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 12, 2022

When you shell out $250 to $450 for a night in a university town’s boutique hotel, what amenities do you expect to get for your money?...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 8, 2022

A year after a priceless nineteenth-century literary collection was rescued from the auction block and donated to public institutions...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 5, 2022

Jane Austen’s famous remark about the relative value of tangible and intangible assets–“tho’ I like praise as well as anybody, I like...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 1, 2022