Deborah YaffeAug 4, 2016Sharing scholarshipAnd here's the second addition this week to the category of Nifty Web Sites I Only Just Heard About: The 18th-Century Common, “a public...
Deborah YaffeAug 1, 2016Six degrees of AustenFor years, movie buffs have entertained themselves with a game called Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon: Start with Movie Actor #1, name a movie...
Deborah YaffeJul 4, 2016That Hamilton womanJane Austen was only seven when the American War of Independence ended, and as far as I know she is not on record either pro or con –...
Deborah YaffeJun 30, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jenny UglowThe classics are timeless, we are told. Their freshness has no sell-by date; their concerns seem as urgent in our times as in the times...
Deborah YaffeMay 30, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Roy and Lesley AdkinsThe 2007 movie of Karen Joy Fowler’s novel The Jane Austen Book Club opens with a montage designed to evoke the noise, stress and...
Deborah YaffeMay 7, 2015Mr. Darcy's six-packThe British actor Matthew Macfadyen – whom many Janeites remember fondly as Darcy in the 2005 feature-film version of Pride and Prejudice...
Deborah YaffeMar 12, 2015Mr. Darcy, slave trader?“Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy made his fortune from slavery”! “Romantic hero profited from the misery of others”! So scream this week’s...
Deborah YaffeFeb 16, 2015On this day in 1813. . .Second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters: Two hundred and two years ago today, on February 16, 1813, Jane...
Deborah YaffeNov 10, 2014Darcy the one-tenth-of-one-percenterA fascinating column in a recent edition of the Financial Times’ FT Magazine uses the income data in Pride and Prejudice to illustrate a...