Deborah YaffeJun 9, 2016My old Kentucky sconeIt is one of my life’s small, poignant sorrows that I have not yet made it to the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, which by...
Deborah YaffeJun 6, 2016Austen in bedlamA few months ago, I was lucky enough to see a very enjoyable and ingenious stage production of Sense and Sensibility, performed in New...
Deborah YaffeJun 2, 2016Who you callin' unpublished?So I’ve finally seen Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship, the much-heralded film adaptation of Lady Susan. (I enjoyed it, if perhaps not...
Deborah YaffeMay 30, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Roy and Lesley AdkinsThe 2007 movie of Karen Joy Fowler’s novel The Jane Austen Book Club opens with a montage designed to evoke the noise, stress and...
Deborah YaffeMay 26, 2016On this day in 1801. . .Thirteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Finding biographical resonances in Jane Austen’s writing is a...
Deborah YaffeMay 23, 2016Lining up for ticketsSince its initial release two weeks ago, Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Austen’s Lady Susan, has been...
Deborah YaffeMay 19, 2016Touring PemberleySo here’s what I’d be doing right this minute if I were in England: Taking today’s “Fitzwilliam Tour” of Wentworth Woodhouse. You will...
Deborah YaffeMay 16, 2016Jane Austen: not a grammar nerdThe UK recently instituted a grammar and punctuation test for students in Year Six – kids aged ten or eleven, roughly equivalent to...
Deborah YaffeMay 12, 2016Finishing the already finishedExcited as I am to see Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Lady Susan, I’ve been more than a little skeptical of...