Deborah YaffeMar 2, 2017Floor-to-ceiling AustenThe curators of Jane Austen’s House Museum in Chawton are hard at work freshening the place up for this year’s commemoration of the...
Deborah YaffeFeb 27, 2017Context is everythingOnce or twice in the past, I have mentioned my aversion to lists of Jane Austen quotes – or mugs with Jane Austen quotes, or, indeed, any...
Deborah YaffeFeb 16, 2017More pictures of FannyEarlier this month, Janeites were delighted when the Folio Society publishers and the House of Illustration, a London gallery devoted to...
Deborah YaffeJan 16, 2017Light a candle for JaneThe latest Austenian clickbait on the young women’s website Bustle provides further evidence, were any needed, that Jane Austen is a...
Deborah YaffeDec 12, 2016Miss Bates, vindicatedMiss Bates has an optimistic outlook on life (“It is such a happiness when good people get together -- and they always do”) but not...
Deborah YaffeNov 10, 2016The bottom lineThe famous supposedly-Jane-Austen silhouette has turned up in some surprising places: at lunch . . . on finger nails. . . decorating...
Deborah YaffeJul 11, 2016Piece by pieceYesterday marked the fourth anniversary of a Janeite teapot tempest – the purchase at auction, by American singer Kelly Clarkson, of a...
Deborah YaffeMay 2, 2016Not quite Antiques RoadshowThe story sounds irresistible: A treasured Jane Austen first edition, inscribed more than a century earlier to an unknown young woman,...
Deborah YaffeOct 29, 2015Jane-o'-lantern timeDevoted readers of Among the Janeites may recall that, even as a child, I was not much of a Halloween person. Dressing up: not my thing....