Deborah YaffeJan 30Tom Lefroy, commitment-phobe?Consider the term “fuckboy”: --“A womanizer; a young man who sleeps with women without any intention of having a relationship with them ....
Deborah YaffeJan 26Jane Austen, matchmakerThe characters that Teri Roberts and Rachel Walton portrayed in the faux-Regency world of the Austen-themed online role-playing game...
Deborah YaffeJan 23Pride & Prejudice & Real EstateSo many updated versions of Jane Austen’s novels have come my way over the past couple of decades that when I hear of a new one these...
Deborah YaffeJan 19Jane Austen's desk, onlineThe Jane Austen Summer Program, whose four-day symposium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, combines academic study of Austen with...
Deborah YaffeJan 16Another Janeite goodbyeThe game of adapting Jane Austen’s novels for the screen has drawn some gifted and illustrious players. In 1940, the renowned novelist...
Deborah YaffeJan 12Alumni reunionsOver the holidays, my family settled in for a screening of that sublime romcom Notting Hill. When the movie ended (“I’m just a girl,...
Deborah YaffeJan 9On this day in 1801. . .Eighty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In January 1801, the twenty-five-year-old Jane Austen was...
Deborah YaffeJan 5A Janeite's Janeite passes onEdith Lank, who died on New Year’s Day at the age of ninety-six, was a Janeite’s Janeite. She read and reread Austen’s novels; began...
Deborah YaffeJan 2Better luck this time?Nearly five years ago, a Canadian lawyer named Tara Rout floated the notion of buying Luckington Court, the UK mansion that played...
