The Jane Austen Guide to Quarantine
For many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...
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Deborah Yaffe
- May 18, 2020
Oh, to be in Paris
For some unaccountable reason, lately I find myself fantasizing longingly about travel to exotic destinations. (Not even that exotic! The...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 26, 2020
Jane in the time of coronavirus
For Austen fans everywhere, it’s a burning question: WWJD (What Would Jane Do) in the time of coronavirus quarantine? Luckily, we now...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 27, 2020
Jane's car
Last December, the owner of a very trendy new car got into a minor accident on an English roadway. And thus we learned some exciting...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 9, 2020
Meg, Jo, Elinor, Marianne
Like all American girls, I loved Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and when I shared it with my daughter many years after my first...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 19, 2019
Still missing
Today’s Jane Austen happening is what hasn’t happened yet: Almost exactly three years after an artist engraved tiny portraits of Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 5, 2019
Jane Austen's side hustle
These days, it takes a lot for an instance of Austenian inaccuracy to surprise me. I hardly turn a hair when quotes from Austen screen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 1, 2019
Too darn hot
The 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 Yaffe
- May 30, 2019
Weird Austen
Sometimes, the Jane Austen mentions you find on the internet are seriously stupid. Other times, they’re just seriously weird. This month,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 18, 2019
Eternally Mr. Darcy
Pity poor Colin Firth. His IMDB page lists more than seventy-five film and TV credits in a career stretching back thirty-five years, and...
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