February - 2024

The Line of Thought

. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Deborah Yaffe

Stocking stuffer

What do you get for the Janeite who has everything? You’d think it would be easy to buy for people whose fandom has spawned an ocean of...

Deborah Yaffe

Playing it safe

Early in the Hallmark Channel’s new adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the recently bereaved Dashwood women stand on the front steps of...

Deborah Yaffe

In for the quill

Once upon a time, the hottest thing in video gaming was the Nintendo Entertainment System. Back then, the pixelated graphics necessitated...

Deborah Yaffe

This is your brain on Jane Austen

In the United States, the Food and Drug Administration requires that medications carrying a substantial risk of dangerous side effects...

Deborah Yaffe

Taking liberties

In 2021, London theatergoers got a Pride and Prejudice with interpolated pop songs and an all-female cast. In 2022, they got a...

Deborah Yaffe

Not loving it

A lot of Austen fans refer to our beloved author as “Jane.” I do not. Partly, that’s because I don’t want to participate in a somewhat...

Deborah Yaffe

The bad old days

How badly off were women in Jane Austen’s England? It’s a question I’ve been mulling lately, amid a spate of recent commentary asserting...

Deborah Yaffe

Something very shocking

In late 2022, I attended the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meeting, held that year in Victoria, British Columbia....

Deborah Yaffe

Digital fan

My “digital fan kit” arrived the day before I was set to join the first of two online book club meetings promoting the Hallmark Channel’s...