Deborah YaffeJun 27Celebrating S&SOver the past decade-plus, as Jane Austen’s novels reached their publication bicentennials, writer and scholar Sarah Emsley invited...
Deborah YaffeJun 24Making it up as you go alongI love the way the internet just makes stuff up. Kidding! I hate the way the internet just makes stuff up—not least when the stuff it...
Deborah YaffeJun 20Endangered DolphinIn December 1793, during a visit to cousins in the Hampshire city of Southampton, the soon-to-turn-eighteen-year-old Jane Austen danced...
Deborah YaffeJun 17Jane Austen, partner in crimeWhile much Jane Austen-inspired fiction can be classed as romance, a thriving subset draws on the conventions of the mystery genre....
Deborah YaffeJun 13The Shirt, unveiledSometimes launching a museum exhibition is a complicated process, as catalogs are researched, international loan agreements negotiated,...
Deborah YaffeJun 10Gotcha!One of the pleasures of life as a pedantic Janeite killjoy is the opportunity to call out minor--yet vexing!--Austen-related errors...
Deborah YaffeJun 6Acquired tasteMansfield Park’s status as the most polarizing of Jane Austen’s novels is by now well-established. It’s the black-olives-and-anchovy...
Deborah YaffeJun 3Bolt from the blueDoes Jane Austen owe her fame to an excellent publicist? The legal scholar Cass R. Sunstein says yes—or at least maybe—in a recent LitHub...