Deborah YaffeOct 31Three plus onePity the poor Austen blogger. The minute you write , “ No fewer than three Austenian adaptations may be making their way to our TV...
Deborah YaffeOct 28Jane Austen studied hereJane Austen’s formal education was brief. Between the ages of seven and ten, she spent a little over two years attending two different...
Deborah YaffeOct 24Center of celebrationIf next year’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth has an epicenter, it would surely be Jane Austen’s House , the...
Deborah YaffeOct 21New materialIn case you feared running short of new Jane Austen-themed television, you can stop worrying: No fewer than three Austenian adaptations...
Deborah YaffeOct 17Desk setThe celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth won’t officially kick off until next year, but that isn’t stopping the...
Deborah YaffeOct 14On footJane Austen’s heroines do a lot of walking. Elizabeth Bennet strides purposefully from Longbourn to Netherfield, muddying her petticoat...
Deborah YaffeOct 10Plain and ornamentalIn his 1870 Memoir of Jane Austen , the author’s nephew, James Edward Austen-Leigh, reports that his famous aunt “was successful in...
Deborah YaffeOct 7On this day in 1808. . . Ninety-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Janeites do not always take Jane Austen at her word when it...
Deborah YaffeOct 3Pilgrimage sitesIn case you’re looking for another stop on your Jane Austen 250th Birthday Pilgrimage, a church where she once worshiped recently...