Reading Austen in high places
A few months ago, I noted that the British royal family appears to include a critical mass of women who are crazy about Jane Austen. (Or...
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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
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Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 20, 2022
She plays well at the palace
Seven years ago, we learned that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall – aka the wife of Prince Charles and future queen consort of England – is a...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 16, 2022
Love means never having to say you're sorry
When I was growing up in 1970s and -80s heartland America, my taste for classic literature, including Jane Austen, made me . . . well, I...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 18, 2022
Jane Austen, elixir of youth?
Last year, an Australian octogenarian named Ruth Wilson made headlines when she completed a doctoral degree on Jane Austen and the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 31, 2022
A newly planted Austen society
Like a Janeite version of Johnny Appleseed, the British-Pakistani journalist and writer Laaleen Sukhera seems to be making a habit of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 3, 2022
CryptoJane
Back in 2013, when the Bank of England announced that Jane Austen would be the face of the £10 note, little did we know that less than a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 28, 2022
Janeite on a sled
The unholy spectacle of a Russian coach berating a fifteen-year-old figure skater after an epic public fail shadowed by a doping scandal...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 13, 2022
With friends like these. . .
For the most part, I love my fellow Janeites. By and large, we are a smart, thoughtful bunch who, whatever our political, temperamental,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 19, 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
- Jul 19, 2021
A Janeite passes on
Two months ago, I noted a Janeite milestone: the one hundredth birthday of Helen Lefroy, a dedicated Janeite with a familial link to Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 8, 2021
A poet of the ordinary
A poet whose work I didn’t know died the other day. Stephen Dunn was a Pulitzer Prize winner who “specialized in poems about surviving,...
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