Deborah YaffeJan 9On this day in 1801. . .Eighty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In January 1801, the twenty-five-year-old Jane Austen was...
Deborah YaffeMay 12, 2022On this day in 1801. . .Seventy-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. How autobiographical is Jane Austen’s writing? Impossible...
Deborah YaffeJan 17, 2022VowsIt’s a hopeless task -- the effort to convince casual fans that Jane Austen isn’t really the patron saint of weddings. No matter how...
Deborah YaffeJan 3, 2022On this day in 1801. . . Seventy-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Moving out of one house and into another is a stressful,...
Deborah YaffeDec 10, 2020Our cousins' streetMany Janeites lack an intimate familiarity with the geography of class in Regency England; we – by which I mean I – can’t tell our Edward...
Deborah YaffeApr 3, 2019Statues, statues everywhereRemember back in elementary school, when one kid would get an awesome new toy or a cool pair of shoes, and then everybody had to have...
Deborah YaffeDec 27, 2018GhostsThe voracious interest in all things Jane Austen has inspired plenty of scholarship about her ancestors and her collateral descendants –...
Deborah YaffeSep 9, 2018Naked(-ish) in BathPoor never-married Jane Austen: Lacking nuptials, she never got a bachelorette party, either. Strange, then – not to say strangely...
Deborah YaffeNov 23, 2015A very (expensive) Jane Austen ChristmasIf you are a Janeite with no 2016 Christmas plans – and a whole wad of cash left over from this year’s gift shopping – the New York Times...
Deborah YaffeNov 17, 2014Nice or naff? You decide“Fierce divisions have broken out among the Guardian books team as to whether this video, bringing a statue of Jane Austen to life, is...
Deborah YaffeApr 20, 2014Sleep under Jane Austen's roofYet another goodie for Janeites to gaze at wistfully: an opportunity to win a mid-week stay in Bath, England, in a building described as...