Deborah YaffeDec 16, 2019Sanditon farewell?Jane Austen experienced her share of literary rejection. One publisher declined even to look at the manuscript that eventually became...
Deborah YaffeDec 9, 2019FruitcakeAs the holidays approach, you may be bracing for the arrival of that winter perennial, the fruitcake -- baked months earlier, soaked in...
Deborah YaffeDec 5, 2019Jane Austen's side hustleThese days, it takes a lot for an instance of Austenian inaccuracy to surprise me. I hardly turn a hair when quotes from Austen screen...
Deborah YaffeDec 2, 2019Man and snowmenMy husband seems befuddled, even a tad shell-shocked. His maiden viewing of a Jane Austen-themed Hallmark Christmas movie – Sense,...
Deborah YaffeNov 25, 2019Sneak previewsThe new year is shaping up as a happy one for Janeites, at least American ones, since it will usher in two new Austen adaptations – the...
Deborah YaffeNov 21, 2019Happy Christmas to all!Disaster averted! Collision avoided! Christmas catastrophe curtailed! Last month, as blog readers will recall, it appeared that the...
Deborah YaffeNov 14, 2019Hands off!Why do people keep trying to mess with Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s 1995 movie, which updated the story of Emma to high school in Beverly...
Deborah YaffeNov 7, 2019The sound of (Austen) musicMusic plays intermittent cameo roles in Jane Austen’s novels: think of Mary Bennet delighting us long enough in Pride and Prejudice, or...
Deborah YaffeOct 17, 2019Christmas mystery solvedLast month, as blog readers will recall, we jointly pondered a Jane Austen Christmas mystery: why a made-for-TV movie named Sense,...