Deborah YaffeJan 9, 2023On this day in 1801. . .Eighty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In January 1801, the twenty-five-year-old Jane Austen was...
Deborah YaffeNov 3, 2022On this day in 1813. . .Eighty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Sometimes you read a famous author’s correspondence and...
Deborah YaffeOct 24, 2022On this day in 1798. . . Eightieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Nowadays, an unpublished writer can upload her...
Deborah YaffeSep 12, 2022Jane Austen in love . . . maybeNine months have passed since we learned the happy news that a cache of priceless books and manuscripts, including two Jane Austen...
Deborah YaffeSep 1, 2022On this day in 1796. . .Seventy-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In December of 1775, the Rev. George Austen wrote to a...
Deborah YaffeAug 18, 2022On this day in 1814. . .Seventy-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. “Write what you know,” aspiring authors are counseled in...
Deborah YaffeJul 14, 2022On this day(ish) in 1814. . . Seventy-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The letter-writing culture of Jane Austen’s day was...
Deborah YaffeJun 6, 2022On this day in 1811. . .Seventy-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen’s novels famously contain few detailed...
Deborah YaffeMay 12, 2022On this day in 1801. . .Seventy-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. How autobiographical is Jane Austen’s writing? Impossible...