Deborah YaffeMar 30Walk the lineIt’s not every day that Jane Austen gets name-checked in a newspaper article that also mentions Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and the...
Deborah YaffeMar 27Down Under AustenOver 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 YaffeMar 23Listening earsFor 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 YaffeMar 20Bait 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 YaffeMar 16Back to the beachIt’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 YaffeMar 13On 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 YaffeMar 9The scientific methodOver the past three years, the indefatigable Jane Austen & Co. has convened four smart and provocative online lecture series about...
Deborah YaffeMar 6Writing womenAs a writer who is also a fan of period drama, I pay attention to the screenwriting credits on my favorite literary-minded TV...
Deborah YaffeMar 2Phone booksBack in 2017, Jane Austen’s birthplace, the Hampshire village of Steventon, marked the bicentennial of her death by converting a disused...