Deborah YaffeNov 9, 2023Decompressing with JaneIn the past seven years, I’ve blogged at least twice about a recurrent motif: reading Jane Austen for a temporary escape from the horrors...
Deborah YaffeNov 6, 2023AdaptableIn the two centuries since Jane Austen’s death, her novels have proved almost infinitely adaptable, transmuted into stage plays, radio...
Deborah YaffeNov 2, 2023Correspondence courseLast year, the Huntington Library in Southern California announced the acquisition of an annotated trove of nearly four hundred letters...
Deborah YaffeOct 30, 2023It's that time againSigns of autumn: Falling leaves. Halloween pumpkins. And the Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, which...
Deborah YaffeOct 26, 2023If the shoe fits. . . The annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America is coming up next week in Denver, and with it that age-old...
Deborah YaffeOct 23, 2023In the mind's eyeJane Austen’s physical descriptions of her characters are famously sparse. But if you ask me, Anne Elliot, Emma Woodhouse, and Elizabeth...
Deborah YaffeOct 19, 2023Irritating pet-peeve annoyanceThe next paragraph of this blog post contains a phrase--taken from a recent piece on StudyFinds, a website that summarizes the...
Deborah YaffeOct 16, 2023On this day in 1808. . .Eighty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Novelists are a ruthless bunch. They find grist for their...
Deborah YaffeOct 12, 2023Bowled overIn the early days of our romance, my now-husband, a Brit with a deep fondness for the sports of his island home, tried valiantly to...