Deborah YaffeSep 14, 2017At last: The Austen tennerIt’s official: Starting today, Brits will be able to buy their tea, their scones -- even their books -- with a fistful of Jane Austen £10...
Deborah YaffeSep 11, 2017Portable PemberleyWe all have our own idea of Pemberley, the quintessential Jane Austen estate. On film, it’s been played by gorgeous Lyme Park, in...
Deborah YaffeAug 21, 2017The bicentenary lives onThe Jane Austen bicentenary is already a month in the rearview mirror, but cute little tie-in pieces are still turning up online –...
Deborah YaffeAug 17, 2017More Austen therapyLately, Audible, the audiobook company owned by Amazon, seems to be having a bit of a Jane Austen moment. Earlier this month, as you’ll...
Deborah YaffeJul 24, 2017Jane Austen lives!When I was researching Among the Janeites, a former president of the Jane Austen Society of North America told me a charming story about...
Deborah YaffeJul 10, 2017All the famous ladiesMore than eighty years ago, a famous art historian commissioned two famous painters (one of them related to an even more famous writer)...
Deborah YaffeJun 29, 2017Celebrity opinionsA little over two centuries ago, Jane Austen famously recorded her acquaintances’ opinions, pro and con, of Emma and Mansfield Park. So...
Deborah YaffeJun 26, 2017Coins and benchesLast fall, you’ll recall, the English town of Basingstoke, located not far from Jane Austen’s final home at Chawton, decided to...
Deborah YaffeJun 19, 2017Darcy in D.C.“The new Darcy Hotel. . . is named for that taciturn hero of Jane Austen’s,” the Washington Times wrote earlier this month, at the outset...