Deborah YaffeJul 3, 2014Strange business, indeedJudging from the near-absence of any mention of our blessed land in the works of Jane Austen, it appears that our beloved author didn’t...
Deborah YaffeJun 30, 2014Jane Austen, imagined friendYesterday’s New York Times Book Review ran an article by poet and critic Adam Kirsch responding to the question, “When we read fiction,...
Deborah YaffeJun 26, 2014Miss Manners, JaneiteI suppose it is not exactly surprising that Miss Manners, the doyenne of How To Behave Correctly, is a Jane Austen reader. Still, as a...
Deborah YaffeJun 23, 2014Late arrival at the Janeite partyFrom time to time, it’s useful to recall that not everyone knows as much about Jane Austen as we Janeites do. Last week’s salutary...
Deborah YaffeJun 19, 2014The Adventure of the Fading CopyrightThe explosion of Jane Austen fan fiction over the past fifteen to twenty years was possible because of one salient fact: Austen’s books,...
Deborah YaffeJun 16, 2014Ready for Lizzy?Janeites come in all political flavors, and I have no desire to split our cheerful community along partisan lines. But I hope we can all...
Deborah YaffeJun 12, 2014Highlighting the highlightedMore fun with data! A bright young reporter decided to mine the little-known trove of info that is Amazon’s list of the passages most...
Deborah YaffeJun 9, 2014The complete Hubback, at lastGreat news for aficionados of Jane Austen fan fiction: the long-inaccessible third volume of The Younger Sister, by Austen’s niece...
Deborah YaffeJun 5, 2014Comma-counting across the centuriesI’m a punctuation geek, I must admit. A fellow reporter on my college newspaper once claimed to have heard me declare, with a passion...