Deborah YaffeApr 18, 2019Julian Assange, Janeite?Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, is a controversial man. Depending on your point of view, he’s either a valiant freedom fighter...
Deborah YaffeApr 8, 2019Jane Austen's first criticFor Janeites, it’s salt rubbed in a wound: the news that scholars will soon be able to inspect a fascinating trove of letters from an...
Deborah YaffeFeb 18, 2019What's your name again?It’s always enjoyable when the mass media provide opportunities for us Janeites to snark about everyone else’s Austen ignorance. Today’s...
Deborah YaffeJan 10, 2019A tourist in BathLast Thursday, James McAvoy, the excellent Scottish actor who played Jane Austen’s crush Tom Lefroy in the 2007 film Becoming Jane, paid...
Deborah YaffeJan 3, 2019Party like it's 2019Over the last eight years, we’ve marked a plethora of Jane Austen anniversaries: the bicentennials of the publications of all six of her...
Deborah YaffeOct 8, 2018Unfinished businessJane Austen’s books – usually Pride and Prejudice, sometimes Emma, occasionally one of the others -- perennially land on those...
Deborah YaffeSep 27, 2018The best companyWhen you’re off to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual conference, and the theme of that conference is Persuasion,...
Deborah YaffeSep 20, 2018BelongingLast year, I blogged about Alejandra Carles-Tolra, a young Spanish photographer, based in London, who had won a competitive grant to...
Deborah YaffeSep 17, 2018Not very Jane Austen at allDissing the members of the British royal family -- at least the popular ones -- is not for the faint of heart. Jane Austen confined her...