Deborah YaffeMay 22, 2014Aux armes, citoyens!We Janeites like to think of ourselves as a community whose shared enthusiasm transcends the artificiality of mere lines on a map,...
Deborah YaffeMay 19, 2014Secret drinking with Jane AustenThe Jane Austen Action Figure is old hat. The Jane Austen coffee mugs and fridge magnets are routine. By now, we’re even accustomed to...
Deborah YaffeMay 15, 2014Underwater AustenLast week, the U.S. Navy and its tech partner announced plans to outfit submarines with a brand-new secure e-book reader called the NeRD...
Deborah YaffeMay 12, 2014Meet me at the corner of Austen and BrontëIt’s true that I have no plans to move to Iowa. It’s true that I don’t really like sprawling five-bedroom houses in subdivisions so new...
Deborah YaffeMay 8, 2014Pop the champagne corks for Mansfield Park's 200thTomorrow is Mansfield Park’s two hundredth birthday, and what’s a birthday without a party? Our host is the writer and blogger Sarah...
Deborah YaffeMay 5, 2014Belle arrivesI’m looking forward to seeing Belle, the new movie about the real-life, mixed-race great-niece of Lord Mansfield, the eighteenth-century...
Deborah YaffeMay 1, 2014**headdesk**Some days you get that hopeless feeling – that sense that the mountain of ignorance is so high and so wide that you, chipping away with...
Deborah YaffeApr 28, 2014Janeite heavenI spent my weekend in Janeite heaven: Saturday at “Jane Austen Day,” a delightful conference sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania...
Deborah YaffeApr 24, 2014Better late than never. . .Squee! Only nine months late (but who’s counting?) my nine-disc, gazillion-hour edition of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries finally arrived this...