Failures
As a way to make a living, writing pretty much sucks, as most writers not named James Patterson or Malcolm Gladwell can tell you. So I...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 30
Tom Lefroy, commitment-phobe?
Consider the term “fuckboy”: --“A womanizer; a young man who sleeps with women without any intention of having a relationship with them ....
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 9
On 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 Yaffe
- Oct 10, 2022
Expensive thrills
For Janeites, the Austen First Edition Thrill-o-Meter is calibrated something like this: Biggest Thrill: Austen novel first edition owned...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 8, 2022
Family letters
As we Janeites know to our sorrow, only 160 of Jane Austen’s letters survive, and some of those are filled with details that mean little...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 28, 2022
In the stars
Jane Austen was a Sagittarius. Would she have cared? Or, as a clergyman’s daughter and a pious Anglican, would she have rejected the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 30, 2022
Feeding the beast
The appetite for Jane Austen-adjacent content never seems to flag, at least in the Anglophiliac precincts of PBS. If you ate up Season...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 6, 2022
On 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 Yaffe
- May 12, 2022
On 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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 21, 2022
On this day in 1805. . .
Seventy-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Leigh-Perrot, who was married to the older brother of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 14, 2022
On this day in 1817. . .
Seventy-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters The letter that Jane Austen wrote to her 11-year-old niece...
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