Deborah YaffeMar 5, 2015Teen JaneJane Austen’s juvenilia, the clever and hilarious short pieces she wrote between the ages of roughly eleven and eighteen, are far less...
Deborah YaffeMar 2, 2015Winnie, Lizzy, and CamillaElizabeth Bennet – vivacious, witty, charming and good-hearted – has many fans. Add to the list Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, wife of...
Deborah YaffeFeb 26, 2015My suspicious mind. . .Here we have a self-consciously literate Craigslist personal ad from a Portland man who says he’s a Jane Austen fan.* He’s looking for...
Deborah YaffeFeb 23, 2015Fifty-One Shades of JaneOK, so the movie was terrible. I had my hopes; they were dashed. In compensation, however, I recently ran across something extremely...
Deborah YaffeFeb 19, 2015Unexpected JaneiteJaneites come in all sorts of unexpected guises, so perhaps I shouldn’t be surprised to learn – via a Terry Gross radio interview...
Deborah YaffeFeb 16, 2015On this day in 1813. . .Second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters: Two hundred and two years ago today, on February 16, 1813, Jane...
Deborah YaffeFeb 12, 2015Fifty Shades of JaneBy now, you may have heard that the filmed adaptation of a pop-culture work with a legion of breathless fans is coming to a multiplex...
Deborah YaffeFeb 9, 2015Department of weirdWe Janeites like to say that our favorite author is everywhere, but some days you just can’t believe where she turns up. An informative...
Deborah YaffeFeb 5, 2015Whit tries JaneBest Jane Austen news of the week (at least potentially): Shooting is about to start on director Whit Stillman’s movie of Lady Susan,...