Deborah YaffeAug 6, 2018Death of an Austen descendantThanks to her four reproductively prolific brothers – James, Edward, Frank, and Charles produced an impressive total of thirty-three sons...
Deborah YaffeJul 19, 2018Tiara time againIt’s been almost four years since we had a reason to put “Jane Austen” and “beauty pageant” in the same sentence. Frankly, we were...
Deborah YaffeJul 9, 2018Remembering feminist historyIn Jane Austen’s time, as we know, women’s lives and opportunities were circumscribed in ways we can scarcely imagine today. Women were...
Deborah YaffeJul 5, 2018What's in a name?Shakespeare’s ardent fans are called Bardolators, not Willcolytes. Dickens admirers are Dickensians, not Chuck-a-holics. Devotees of...
Deborah YaffeJun 25, 2018Graphing the plotBack in high school, I did reasonably well in math. I may have trouble balancing my checkbook these days, but I promise I’m not one of...
Deborah YaffeJun 18, 2018Ready for its closeupsA couple of months ago, when Jane Austen’s House Museum unveiled the results of the collaborative quilting project it organized to...
Deborah YaffeJun 11, 2018On this day in 1799. . .Thirty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The story of Jane Austen fandom has been told more than...
Deborah YaffeJun 7, 2018Inspiring Janeite PRAs a fan of not only Jane Austen but also the Jane Austen Society of North America (member since 1981), I was pleased to see JASNA pop up...
Deborah YaffeMay 28, 2018Proust questionnaire for a JaneiteLast month, as blog readers will recall, a non-profit executive and Janeite with the extraordinarily appropriate name of Janet Austin was...