Deborah YaffeFeb 8The bad old daysHow badly off were women in Jane Austen’s England? It’s a question I’ve been mulling lately, amid a spate of recent commentary asserting...
Deborah YaffeJan 25On this day in 1801. . . Ninety-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. A curious—and curiously contemporary--passage appears in the...
Deborah YaffeJan 8Headline magicIf you read the UK media, you might be forgiven for thinking that no story about British real estate is complete without a link to Jane...
Deborah YaffeDec 28, 2023On this day in 1808. . .Ninetieth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen had six brothers, but one of them—George, the...
Deborah YaffeDec 7, 2023Marked upThe world can be divided into two categories: People who leave their books unsullied, and people who mark them up. And if a prominent...
Deborah YaffeNov 2, 2023Correspondence courseLast year, the Huntington Library in Southern California announced the acquisition of an annotated trove of nearly four hundred letters...
Deborah YaffeOct 16, 2023On this day in 1808. . .Eighty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Novelists are a ruthless bunch. They find grist for their...
Deborah YaffeOct 12, 2023Bowled overIn the early days of our romance, my now-husband, a Brit with a deep fondness for the sports of his island home, tried valiantly to...
Deborah YaffeSep 18, 2023On this day in 1796. . . Eighty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The British have a well-documented penchant for discussing...