Deborah YaffeMar 29, 2018A pen dipped in vitriolNew this week: The latest entry in the annals of Jane Austen Bizarro World (or, to be honest, Jane Austen-Adjacent Bizarro World). Three...
Deborah YaffeMar 26, 2018Unveiling the Jane Austen quiltsThe delightful Jane Austen Quilt project culminated earlier this month with the unveiling at Jane Austen’s House Museum of two beautiful...
Deborah YaffeMar 22, 2018No JAFF for this famous JaneiteFor generations of teenagers, including me, reading the young-adult novels of S.E. Hinton – classics like The Outsiders and That Was...
Deborah YaffeFeb 8, 2018The fifth-grade Jane AustenIs Jane Austen hard to read? “Absolutely not!” I hear you Janeites saying. “She’s a master of precise and lucid prose! Her dialogue...
Deborah YaffeJan 8, 2018Patching together Austen's lifeAmong the commemorations planned during last year’s bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death, one of the most delightful was the Chawton quilt...
Deborah YaffeDec 21, 2017Christmas comes early for JaneitesPeople who do not write fiction often have trouble believing that novelists just, you know, make stuff up. These readers seize upon every...
Deborah YaffeNov 27, 2017Wanted: LettuceThe rabbit guy, it turns out, loved Jane Austen. Last week, the Guardian reported that the large and valuable library of the late Richard...
Deborah YaffeNov 6, 2017Surveying the landscapeNearly ten years ago, Jeanne Kiefer, an Austen fan with a background in journalism and corporate surveys, conducted what is, as far as I...
Deborah YaffeAug 31, 2017The day is come“At length the Day is come on which I am to flirt my last with Tom Lefroy,” the 20-year-old Jane Austen wrote to her sister in January...