Deborah YaffeJan 18, 2021PuzzledI love jigsaw puzzles. So much so that I only occasionally dare to start one, lest my addiction/obsession eat up every waking hour until...
Deborah YaffeDec 17, 2020Eternal veritiesDespite the strangeness of this year, some eternal verities remain. Snowflakes. Evergreens. Misquoting Jane Austen. A few highlights of...
Deborah YaffeSep 7, 2020Giving credit where credit is dueThose of us who set ourselves up as arbiters of correctness in matters of Jane Austen quotation never run short of opportunities to...
Deborah YaffeAug 31, 2020Mutton and rhubarbJane Austen seems to have spent as little time as possible in the kitchen, leaving the cooking to the women she lived with and the...
Deborah YaffeApr 20, 2020From museum to houseTwo years ago, Chawton House Library – a research center for the study of early English writing by women, located in an Elizabethan...
Deborah YaffeJan 13, 2020BewitchingSearch engine optimization and web analytics are topics about which I know very little. (OK: nothing.) So when Google sends me its...
Deborah YaffeDec 12, 2019What would Jane Austen say?“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance,” I texted my husband. I was not providing dampening commentary on our nearly...
Deborah YaffeAug 1, 2019Greatest Hits, Part IIAs I have pointed out rather often, most recently earlier this week, the Internet is filled with quotes from filmed adaptations of Jane...
Deborah YaffeJul 29, 2019Greatest Hits, Part IThe Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...
Deborah YaffeJul 1, 2019Too darn hotThe dog days of summer are approaching, and perhaps that’s why the amount of Stupid Jane Austen Stuff coming my way seems to have ramped...
Deborah YaffeMay 20, 2019Mistakes, misquotes, misunderstandingsToday on “Making Fun of the Internet,” a roundup of the latest Jane Austen-related stupid stuff that has crossed my cyber-transom...
Deborah YaffeJan 21, 2019Printer errorFew expressions of Janeite commitment are as permanent -- not to mention as painful -- as the Jane Austen tattoo. Therefore, I’d have...