Boo!
It’s the scary season – ghosts, witches, creaking doors in haunted houses. For Janeites, however, the Internet’s frightening capacity to...
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The Line of Thought
. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 23, 2021
Timeless heroine
“Mouni Roy Dresses Like A Jane Austen Heroine In Her Latest Photoshoot And Totally Nails It,” proclaimed a recent headline on the website...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 6, 2021
Required reading
Last week, a British judge imposed an unusual sentence on a young man convicted of possessing terrorism-related materials. "Have you read...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 12, 2021
Deck the halls
It was Christmas in July for those of us who spend our days looking for pop-culture recognition of Jane Austen’s genius: * July 14:...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 12, 2021
The dating game
Some weeks, it’s not clear what tidbit of gossip or news deserves mention as the biggest story in Jane Austen fandom. Other weeks, a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 8, 2021
A poet of the ordinary
A poet whose work I didn’t know died the other day. Stephen Dunn was a Pulitzer Prize winner who “specialized in poems about surviving,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 7, 2021
Vanity plate
So I spent Memorial Day weekend visiting family in Denver. One afternoon, as we drove along the street, I glanced out the window just in...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 13, 2021
Data storage, the Jane Austen way
Anyone whose college papers reside on now-unreadable floppy disks has probably wondered whether the human race is on the brink of an...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 22, 2021
Small world
The world of the British aristocracy can seem very small indeed. Witness this month’s auction of items from the estate of the late...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 4, 2021
More name-dropping
The virtual ink had barely dried on my recent blog post about a questionable list of Jane Austen-themed names for baby boys when I...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 1, 2021
Name-dropping
It’s a well-established Janeite practice to name children and pets after Austen characters: while researching my book Among the Janeites,...
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