Deborah YaffeJul 17, 2017Six booksTomorrow marks the anniversary that we all – or, at least, all those of us who are Janeites – have been waiting for since 2017 dawned:...
Deborah YaffeJul 3, 2017On this day in 1813. . .Twenty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen wrote for money. Not only for money, of course...
Deborah YaffeJun 15, 2017On this day in 1808. . .Twenty-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. The letter Jane Austen began writing to her sister,...
Deborah YaffeMay 22, 2017On this day in 1817. . .Twenty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. By May 1817, Jane Austen was gravely ill, just surfacing...
Deborah YaffeMay 15, 2017Sometimes folly is folly“To put it bluntly, he was screwing her.” It’s not every day that my Jane Austen Google alert yields a line like that. Especially when...
Deborah YaffeMay 11, 2017Stealing Home?In Austen studies, originality is hard to come by. The primary sources – novels, letters, family reminiscences, unfinished work – are...
Deborah YaffeApr 27, 2017Refighting the winning battleBarely is the metaphorical ink dry on my recent blog post lamenting all the great UK Jane Austen bicentenary events that we American...
Deborah YaffeApr 6, 2017On this day in 1817. . .Twenty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Devotees of the Victorian novel are familiar with the Will...
Deborah YaffeMar 16, 2017Austen's eyesWhen the whole world is gobbling down a giant ice cream sundae, it can be hard to come along and insist we all switch to spinach. But...