March - 2023

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

Deborah Yaffe

Walk the line

It’s not every day that Jane Austen gets name-checked in a newspaper article that also mentions Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and the...

Deborah Yaffe

Down Under Austen

Over in the opposite hemisphere of the globe, it seems, they’re reading a lot of Jane Austen. Or so we might conclude from a couple of...

Deborah Yaffe

Listening ears

For the past week or so, my Google alert has been crowded with versions of the same story: William and Kate—that’s the Prince and...

Deborah Yaffe

Bait and switch?

“Jane Austen’s Birthplace Hits the Market”! “Your chance to live in the beloved author’s treasured family home”! When these headlines...

Deborah Yaffe

Back to the beach

It’s been a long road for fans of Sanditon, the PBS series based, very loosely, on the novel that Jane Austen left unfinished at her...

Deborah Yaffe

On this day in 1816. . .

Eighty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Janeites take the lives of Jane Austen’s characters very,...

Deborah Yaffe

The scientific method

Over the past three years, the indefatigable Jane Austen & Co. has convened four smart and provocative online lecture series about...

Deborah Yaffe

Writing women

As a writer who is also a fan of period drama, I pay attention to the screenwriting credits on my favorite literary-minded TV...

Deborah Yaffe

Phone books

Back in 2017, Jane Austen’s birthplace, the Hampshire village of Steventon, marked the bicentennial of her death by converting a disused...