Deborah YaffeJan 29Kiddie litBack when I was young and stupid, I didn’t think much of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, the short sketches and fragments she wrote between the...
Deborah YaffeJan 25On this day in 1801. . . Ninety-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. A curious—and curiously contemporary--passage appears in the...
Deborah YaffeJan 22A stroll in paradise Last year, I was lucky enough to spend a day at the Huntington, a place to see rare books, great artwork, and spectacular botanical...
Deborah YaffeJan 18NotedWhen my children were in grade school, their English teachers often required them to annotate their reading: For each chapter, students...
Deborah YaffeJan 15Austenian situationships“There is a scene in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility where the hopelessly romantic Marianne Dashwood writes a letter to a man she...
Deborah YaffeJan 11Miss Austen, sans regretsNever let it be said that I allowed my excitement--nay, my sheer giddy fervor!--over the Hallmark Channel’s upcoming Jane Austen month to...
Deborah YaffeJan 8Headline magicIf you read the UK media, you might be forgiven for thinking that no story about British real estate is complete without a link to Jane...
Deborah YaffeJan 4Jane-talk, sponsoredBack in the summer of 2022, TikTok kicked off its inaugural book club with a group reading of Persuasion. Allegedly, the TikTok Book Club...
Deborah YaffeJan 1Happy New LoveyearNew Year’s Day has its melancholy side: Tinsel shelved until next December, work on the horizon, hangover hanging on. Luckily, however,...