Deborah YaffeNov 19, 2015Voting Austen onto the islandNicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s First Minister – in other words, the head of Scotland’s semi-autonomous government – is a famously patriotic...
Deborah YaffeNov 16, 2015Mis-RemembranceSee, this is why it’s a problem -- as I’ve written so many, many times before (for instance: here, here and here) – that the Internet is...
Deborah YaffeNov 12, 2015Palatial fixer-upper sells at lastIt’s been a year since the imagination of real-estate-coveting Janeites was captured by the news that Wentworth Woodhouse, a humongously...
Deborah YaffeNov 9, 2015How dare you?It’s not exactly news that we Janeites feel very, very strongly about Jane Austen’s characters. Like, more strongly than we do about most...
Deborah YaffeNov 5, 2015Walking Austen countryJane Austen was a country girl – she spent most of her life in a couple of small villages in Hampshire, England – and even today the...
Deborah YaffeNov 2, 2015Famous non-friend likes AustenIt’s always nice to find Austen fans in semi-unexpected places. Today’s entry comes from this recent interview with Joshua Malina, a star...
Deborah YaffeOct 29, 2015Jane-o'-lantern timeDevoted readers of Among the Janeites may recall that, even as a child, I was not much of a Halloween person. Dressing up: not my thing....
Deborah YaffeOct 26, 2015Keepin' it classyDon’t worry, honey, I’m not planning to get one. But I was still exceedingly diverted by this feature on “Classy Jane Austen Tattoo...
Deborah YaffeOct 22, 2015James on JaneThe popular, movie-inflected view of Jane Austen is so thoroughly imbued with stereotypical, romanticized girliness – fair maidens,...