Deborah YaffeApr 27, 2023Austen in the dreamscapeAustralians may have a complicated relationship with Britain, their one-time mother country, but no such ambivalence seems to pervade...
Deborah YaffeApr 24, 2023False advertising?Like many Janeites, I know scattered bits of Austen by heart. I can proclaim the first sentences of Pride and Prejudice and Emma, recite...
Deborah YaffeApr 20, 2023On this day in 1811. . . Eighty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s traditional to envision Jane Austen as a homebody, and...
Deborah YaffeApr 17, 2023Jeopardy and peril at Chawton HouseTwenty years ago this summer, American tech mogul and Janeite Sandy Lerner finished up her multimillion-dollar restoration of an...
Deborah YaffeApr 13, 2023Installing AustenA hot London designer plans to honor Jane Austen, along with other female writers, in a multimedia installation housed at an Australian...
Deborah YaffeApr 10, 2023A controversial rarityBecause Jane Austen’s letters are such rare and precious gems, it’s semi-big news whenever one of the extant 160(ish) turns up on...
Deborah YaffeApr 6, 2023FailuresAs a way to make a living, writing pretty much sucks, as most writers not named James Patterson or Malcolm Gladwell can tell you. So I...
Deborah YaffeApr 3, 2023Star attractionJane Austen has had friends in high places for a very long time. In 1815, she famously accepted an offer (one of those offers you can’t...