Austen in the dreamscape
Australians may have a complicated relationship with Britain, their one-time mother country, but no such ambivalence seems to pervade...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 24
False 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 Yaffe
- Apr 20
On 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 Yaffe
- Apr 17
Jeopardy and peril at Chawton House
Twenty years ago this summer, American tech mogul and Janeite Sandy Lerner finished up her multimillion-dollar restoration of an...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 13
Installing Austen
A hot London designer plans to honor Jane Austen, along with other female writers, in a multimedia installation housed at an Australian...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 10
A controversial rarity
Because 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 Yaffe
- Apr 3
Star attraction
Jane 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...
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