Deborah YaffeDec 19, 2022SugarplumsAs Christmas approaches, the internet has been filling our Janeite stockings with tidbits of Austen-related news: --Ahoy, there: Last...
Deborah YaffeDec 1, 2022CryptoJane, Part IIJane Austen’s famous remark about the relative value of tangible and intangible assets–“tho’ I like praise as well as anybody, I like...
Deborah YaffeOct 13, 2022The pendulum swingsThe smashing success of Netflix’s Bridgerton has ushered in a new era of multiracial casting in Regency costume dramas. This is good...
Deborah YaffeOct 6, 2022Ahead of his timeJaneites first discover Jane Austen at different moments in their lives. I’ve talked with people who read her first in a high school or...
Deborah YaffeOct 3, 2022The Austen MBAWe all read Jane Austen for different reasons. (I wrote a whole book about this phenomenon.) Some read her for the lucidity of her...
Deborah YaffeSep 19, 2022Reading Austen in high placesA 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...
Deborah YaffeJun 20, 2022She plays well at the palaceSeven years ago, we learned that Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall – aka the wife of Prince Charles and future queen consort of England – is a...
Deborah YaffeMay 16, 2022Love means never having to say you're sorryWhen I was growing up in 1970s and -80s heartland America, my taste for classic literature, including Jane Austen, made me . . . well, I...
Deborah YaffeApr 18, 2022Jane 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...