How P&P came to be
It’s a great time for programming at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote or revised all six of her...
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Deborah Yaffe
- 5 days ago
Listening pleasure
It’s been a sadly long time since I strolled through the garden at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 18
Polite confusion
Titles can’t be copyrighted, but usually, this isn’t a problem: No one is likely to mistake a classic Victorian novel for a 1970s boxing...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 15
Being Mr. Wickham, again
Over the past four years, the British actor Adrian Lukis has spent a lot of time being Mr. Wickham. In late 2019, Lukis – who, as...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 11
Trouble at Lyme
Mr. Darcy, aka Colin Firth, is riding a white horse when he comes home to Pemberley, aka Lyme Park, in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 8
Ubiquitous Austen
Back in 2004, when Margaret Sullivan launched the indispensable AustenBlog, she chose a tagline that reflected Jane Austen’s pop-culture...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 4
Our robot overlords read Jane Austen
It’s a truism that the best way to improve your writing is to read the work of good writers. Apparently, this maxim holds true even for...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 1
The unwritten manuscript
The untimely death last year of the acclaimed historical novelist Hilary Mantel was immediately recognized as a tragic loss for the world...
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