Events 7/13

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

Austen and Asia

Last year, as George Floyd’s murder sparked a racial reckoning around the globe, the public humanities collaborative Jane Austen & Co....

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 11, 2021

Time travel

We EngLit types are not always as adept at math as we are at literary analysis. But we’ll need to brush up our arithmetical skills this...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 8, 2021

Normal-ish

Is the pandemic over yet? The answer, of course, depends on where you live, but one hopeful sign that some of us are partway back to...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 4, 2021

Autumn footsteps

Wandering around the English countryside in early autumn while talking about literature: sounds idyllic, no? And so I sighed enviously as...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 30, 2021

Quill and paper

In Sense and Sensibility, as Janeites will recall, Elinor Dashwood and her rival, Lucy Steele, spend a tense evening sparring genteelly...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 30, 2021

Raising Jane(ites)

Long ago, I danced at a JASNA ball with a twelve-year-old girl who, when I asked if she was a Janeite, told me that she had “been raised...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 19, 2021

Project Austen Runway

A New York bridal-gown designer wants to give away made-to-order, Jane Austen-inspired couture dresses. No one’s interested, I assume. As...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 9, 2021

Back in the screening room

Last year, as beloved Jane Austen festivals across the globe moved online, one brand-new event managed an in-person debut, complete with...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 5, 2021

Sanditon, the convention

In the past three years, Sanditon, the TV series based on Jane Austen’s last unfinished novel, has roller-coastered through a dizzying...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 24, 2021

Virtual Austenland

We all hope our offscreen lives will soon resume, but in the meantime, our gatherings remain virtual. For Janeites, that’s meant online...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 29, 2021

Cross-channel connections

Jane Austen is usually thought of as a quintessentially English writer, what with all those landed estates, rural rectories, and mannerly...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 15, 2021

Old issues, new questions

Five years ago, I wrote a magazine article about the controversy over Woodrow Wilson’s repugnant racial views – an aspect of the...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 11, 2021