Deborah YaffeJan 2, 2017A whirlwind new year for JaneitesHappy new year, Janeites! For us fans of Jane Austen, 2017 is a big year, the biggest since – well, since 2013, when we celebrated the...
Deborah YaffeDec 19, 2016On this day in 1798. . .Eighteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Reading has its hierarchies. We prefer acquaintances to catch...
Deborah YaffeNov 21, 2016On this day in 1800. . .Seventeenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In 1884, when Jane Austen’s great-nephew Lord Brabourne...
Deborah YaffeOct 27, 2016On this day in 1798. . .Sixteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Two hundred and eighteen years ago today, on October 27, 1798,...
Deborah YaffeSep 8, 2016On this day in 1816. . .Fifteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. “A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to...
Deborah YaffeJun 27, 2016Austen's simple old songsLike her characters Marianne Dashwood and Jane Fairfax, Jane Austen was, we are told, a committed amateur pianist. “In her youth she had...
Deborah YaffeJun 23, 2016On this day in 1814. . .Fourteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Jane Austen’s circle of real friends seems to have been...
Deborah YaffeMay 26, 2016On this day in 1801. . .Thirteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Finding biographical resonances in Jane Austen’s writing is a...
Deborah YaffeApr 18, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: John HalperinWork on Jane Austen, whether biography or literary criticism, arrays itself along a spectrum whose poles might be labeled Jolly Jane and...