Deborah YaffeNov 23, 2017Pie and prejudiceThanksgiving Day is upon us once again, and once again it’s time to search the works of Jane Austen – who, as an Englishwoman who never...
Deborah YaffeOct 16, 2017Men who won't take no for an answerJane Austen anticipates current events in Hollywood: Northanger Abbey, ch. 15: “ ‘Did you ever hear the old song ‘Going to One Wedding...
Deborah YaffeSep 25, 2017On this day in 1813. . .Twenty-sixth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Janeites often wonder how Jane Austen would feel about her...
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 YaffeMar 6, 2017Austen en françaisSay what you will of Isabelle de Montolieu: The woman had chutzpah. In 1816, de Montolieu, a successful Swiss novelist, published her...
Deborah YaffeFeb 27, 2017Context is everythingOnce or twice in the past, I have mentioned my aversion to lists of Jane Austen quotes – or mugs with Jane Austen quotes, or, indeed, any...
Deborah YaffeFeb 20, 2017Distinguishing marksBack in my college days, when I was a pedantically obsessive copy editor on the student newspaper, a friend claimed to have overheard me...
Deborah YaffeFeb 16, 2017More pictures of FannyEarlier this month, Janeites were delighted when the Folio Society publishers and the House of Illustration, a London gallery devoted to...
Deborah YaffeFeb 2, 2017Pictures of FannyThose of us who first encountered Jane Austen on the page of a book without illustrations -- rather than on a movie screen -- probably...