Deborah YaffeJun 9, 2014The complete Hubback, at lastGreat news for aficionados of Jane Austen fan fiction: the long-inaccessible third volume of The Younger Sister, by Austen’s niece...
Deborah YaffeMar 3, 2014Postscript to "The Watsons in Winter": Bless the Midwest!The library gods are smiling upon us Janeites. As I reported in my recently completed Watsons in Winter blog series, Jane Austen’s...
Deborah YaffeFeb 13, 2014Wrapping up The Watsons in Winter“Each of us has a private Austen,” Karen Joy Fowler writes at the beginning of The Jane Austen Book Club, her 2004 novel about how...
Deborah YaffeFeb 10, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Jennifer Ready BettiolSome Jane Austen fanfiction is produced by professional writers with one eye on a potentially profitable market. But much Austen...
Deborah YaffeFeb 6, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Eucharista WardJane Austen’s life was steeped in religion. As the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she almost certainly believed in God, attended...
Deborah YaffeFeb 3, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Helen BakerNews flash: it’s hard to write like Jane Austen. I don’t just mean that it’s hard to emulate Austen’s diamond-bright sentences, with...
Deborah YaffeJan 30, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Merryn WilliamsMerryn Williams’ completion of The Watsons, Jane Austen’s fragment of a novel, is a modest undertaking. With new material that runs only...
Deborah YaffeJan 27, 2014The Watsons in Winter: Joan AikenJoan Aiken’s books were among the delights of my childhood – propulsive, plot-driven novels in the Gothic spirit of Victorian classics...
Deborah YaffeJan 23, 2014The Watsons in Winter: David Hopkinson ("Another")What is it with the extended Hubback clan? They just can’t seem to get enough of Jane Austen’s fragment The Watsons. The first person to...