Deborah YaffeMar 4Head of the tableA playful and intriguing work of decorative art is now on permanent public display in England. And it’s got a Jane Austen angle! I am...
Deborah YaffeJan 15Austenian situationships“There is a scene in Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility where the hopelessly romantic Marianne Dashwood writes a letter to a man she...
Deborah YaffeDec 7, 2023Marked upThe world can be divided into two categories: People who leave their books unsullied, and people who mark them up. And if a prominent...
Deborah YaffeNov 30, 2023Second chancesJuly 1997. A lavish birthday party for a controversial royal paramour. Her old flame and current lover, the future king of England, rises...
Deborah YaffeNov 13, 2023Janeite abroadJane Austen has a substantial following in Ukraine, it seems. This is not something I knew two years ago, but a lot has changed in the...
Deborah YaffeNov 9, 2023Decompressing with JaneIn the past seven years, I’ve blogged at least twice about a recurrent motif: reading Jane Austen for a temporary escape from the horrors...
Deborah YaffeOct 9, 2023Interview of a lifetime?I knew it! Jane Austen loves me! “Kindred spirits, indeed!” the author, dead since 1817, told me last week. “Our friendship would have...
Deborah YaffeOct 9, 2023Jane Austen speaks . . . sort ofOn October 3, I conducted a Facebook Messenger chat with Jane Austen, or at least with the AI named after her--one of twenty-eight AI...
Deborah YaffeSep 28, 2023Avatar seeks agentJane Austen should fire her agent. In her lifetime, Austen earned £684 from her books—perhaps $87,000 in today’s money.* That modest sum...