Deborah YaffeJul 7, 2014The scandalous playwright of MansfieldAn informative and interesting recent post on the British Library’s European Studies blog talked about August von Kotzebue, a late...
Deborah YaffeJun 19, 2014The Adventure of the Fading CopyrightThe explosion of Jane Austen fan fiction over the past fifteen to twenty years was possible because of one salient fact: Austen’s books,...
Deborah YaffeMay 1, 2014**headdesk**Some days you get that hopeless feeling – that sense that the mountain of ignorance is so high and so wide that you, chipping away with...
Deborah YaffeDec 5, 2013Married to Mr. Darcy?On-line quizzes claiming to align your personality with that of a literary character are hardly a new phenomenon. (For example, click...
Deborah YaffeOct 17, 2013Jane Austen, Jane Eyre. Whatever.I love it when things like this* turn up in my daily Google alert for "Jane Austen": "Apparently every generation needs its own version...
Deborah YaffeSep 2, 2013Catfight on the moors?Why do so many people who write about Jane Austen feel compelled to referee an imaginary smackdown between her and the Brontë sisters?...