Deborah YaffeOct 27, 2014Oh, those dear little womenAlexander McCall Smith, I’m told, is a delightful writer. But you wouldn’t know it from his rambling, unfocused and kind of dumb piece...
Deborah YaffeOct 23, 2014Death comes to PBSJust because I didn't much like Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James' 2011 murder-mystery sequel to Pride and Prejudice -- and, like so...
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 YaffeJun 9, 2014The complete Hubback, at lastGreat news for aficionados of Jane Austen fan fiction: the long-inaccessible third volume of The Younger Sister, by Austen’s niece...
Deborah YaffeMar 3, 2014Postscript to "The Watsons in Winter": Bless the Midwest!The library gods are smiling upon us Janeites. As I reported in my recently completed Watsons in Winter blog series, Jane Austen’s...
Deborah YaffeFeb 13, 2014Wrapping up The Watsons in Winter“Each of us has a private Austen,” Karen Joy Fowler writes at the beginning of The Jane Austen Book Club, her 2004 novel about how...
Deborah YaffeFeb 10, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Jennifer Ready BettiolSome Jane Austen fanfiction is produced by professional writers with one eye on a potentially profitable market. But much Austen...
Deborah YaffeFeb 6, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Eucharista WardJane Austen’s life was steeped in religion. As the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she almost certainly believed in God, attended...
Deborah YaffeFeb 3, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Helen BakerNews flash: it’s hard to write like Jane Austen. I don’t just mean that it’s hard to emulate Austen’s diamond-bright sentences, with...