Deborah YaffeMar 13, 2023On this day in 1816. . . Eighty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Janeites take the lives of Jane Austen’s characters very,...
Deborah YaffeMar 9, 2023The scientific methodOver the past three years, the indefatigable Jane Austen & Co. has convened four smart and provocative online lecture series about...
Deborah YaffeMar 6, 2023Writing womenAs a writer who is also a fan of period drama, I pay attention to the screenwriting credits on my favorite literary-minded TV...
Deborah YaffeMar 2, 2023Phone booksBack in 2017, Jane Austen’s birthplace, the Hampshire village of Steventon, marked the bicentennial of her death by converting a disused...
Deborah YaffeFeb 27, 2023Matilda's reading listEarlier this month, the Telegraph reported that, in reissuing books by the beloved-but-controversial children’s writer Roald Dahl, his...
Deborah YaffeFeb 23, 2023Heavenly visionsFrom time to time, my Google alert brings me word of Janeites I’ll never get to meet--fellow travelers who have passed on, leaving behind...
Deborah YaffeFeb 20, 2023Recommended readingIn a world with so many books and so little time, reading recommendations--from critics, bloggers, celebrity talk-show hosts,...
Deborah YaffeFeb 16, 2023Speaking well enough to be unintelligibleA few weeks ago, the British press was suddenly awash in articles (for example, here, here and here) about the new! exciting! previously...
Deborah YaffeFeb 13, 2023TriggeredIn my junior year of college, the assigned reading for my women’s studies class included Gloria Naylor’s 1982 novel The Women of Brewster...