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The Jane Austen Summer Program, whose four-day symposium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, combines academic study of Austen with...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 22, 2022
Father knows best
Although Jane Austen’s novels never commanded huge print runs – the biggest, for Emma, totaled only two thousand copies -- Austen first...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 31, 2022
Scary monsters
Happy Halloween, Janeites! Although Austen wrote no scenes of trick-or-treating, pumpkin-carving, or gorging on candy corn, she certainly...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 29, 2022
Lucky thirteen
Thirty-nine years ago, during my first semester of college, I took the train from New Haven to Philadelphia to attend my first Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 29, 2022
Diving deep
We Janeites like to say that Austen’s novels repay slow and careful perusal, and that every time we reread, we discover something new....
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 1, 2022
As seen by AI
Jane Austen famously supplies few physical descriptions of her characters – little beyond eye color, hair color, or relative height, and...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 25, 2022
Cue the wine and cheese
Last spring, as blog readers will recall, the London Times announced that Persuasion was the sixth most popular book on TikTok, the...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 26, 2022
#AustenTok
If you’ve ever wondered whether the shortening of our collective attention span spells doom for the appreciation of Jane Austen's...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 31, 2022
Jane all around
Jane Austen turns up in the most unexpected places, doesn’t she? Here’s where she’s been in the past week: --Jane Austen and true crime:...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 6, 2022
Getting warmer
When it comes to climate change, is Jane Austen part of the problem? In a grossly oversimplified nutshell, that’s the question that will...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 16, 2021
Many happy returns
Two hundred and forty-six years ago today, a daughter was born to Cassandra Leigh Austen and her husband, the Reverend George Austen. The...
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