Deborah YaffeSep 24, 2018On this day in 1813. . .Thirty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen never lived alone. From her earliest days,...
Deborah YaffeAug 23, 2018On this day in 1796. . .Thirty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The young Jane Austen was a voracious reader. We know this...
Deborah YaffeAug 9, 2018Fascinating PhiladelphiaJane Austen’s paternal aunt Philadelphia Austen Hancock (1730-92) is one of the most fascinating and understudied characters in the...
Deborah YaffeJul 26, 2018On this day in 1809. . .Thirty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters As a novelist, Jane Austen was one of the greatest writers...
Deborah YaffeApr 19, 2018Jane the MOOC-erJaneites tend to know quite a bit about Jane Austen: her books, her characters, her family, her life and times. But hey – there’s always...
Deborah YaffeApr 9, 2018Gateway to Austen's educationFew are the places with genuine Jane Austen connections. Austen’s birthplace, Steventon Rectory, was razed in the nineteenth century;...
Deborah YaffeJan 15, 2018Here we go again. . .Last month, the Washington Post drew well-earned Janeite derision when it published an article exploring the astonishing news that Jane...
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 20, 2017On this day in 1814. . .Twenty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only six of Jane Austen’s letters to her oldest niece,...