Listening in on Chawton House
Last summer, the pandemic programmers of Chawton House, the Elizabethan manor once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, revived the...
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Deborah Yaffe
- May 17, 2021
One hundred candles
Back in 2011, when the research for my book Among the Janeites took me on the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual tour of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 5, 2016
Austen fights again
Six summers ago, a faux trailer for a non-existent film titled Jane Austen’s Fight Club went viral, with its hilarious juxtaposition of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 30, 2013
Jane Austen's 2013
For someone who’s been dead since 1817, Jane Austen had a pretty good year in 2013. She was honored with a set of UK stamps, and her...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 10, 2013
Letters about Jane
Keith Sharon, an old friend and colleague from our days at the Jersey City newspaper, mentions Among the Janeites in an Orange County...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 4, 2013
Anniversaries and explanations
January 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...