Jane's car
Last December, the owner of a very trendy new car got into a minor accident on an English roadway. And thus we learned some exciting...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 22, 2016
Jane Austen, citizen of the world
Jane Austen is often seen as quintessentially English, in her portraits of a rural middle-class life dominated by the gentry and the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 17, 2015
Jane Austen's new career
It’s always inspiring to hear about people who have shifted gears later in life, learning new skills or realizing old dreams. But who...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 27, 2015
When my ship comes in
As Janeites know, Austen was no world traveler: for all of her forty-one years, she lived in the southern English counties of Hampshire...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 2, 2014
Looking for love Down Under
And you thought Jane Austen was dead. But no – she’s on the prowl for a mate, or at least a date. And she’s “an optimistic family...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 12, 2014
Meet me at the corner of Austen and Brontë
It’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...
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