In lieu of a pear tree
It’s a tough year for traditional Christmas celebrations. The eight maids are a-milking in masks. The ten lords are a-leaping six feet...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 24, 2018
'Twas the night before Christmas
Tomorrow is Christmas, the day on which a larger-than-life personage employing semi-equine transport suddenly appears in our homes,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 25, 2017
Christmas tranquility and tedium at Mansfield Park
For those of us with school-age children, Christmas week provides a delightful break from the rhythms of the academic calendar: No rising...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 24, 2015
The worst Christmas ever?
Despite the New York Times’ efforts to persuade us otherwise, Jane Austen is not a Christmassy writer. It’s true that the word...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 23, 2015
A very (expensive) Jane Austen Christmas
If 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 Yaffe
- Dec 25, 2014
A Jane Austen Christmas
Jane Austen is famously careful about the chronology in her stories – Ellen Moody has mined the text to produce working calendars for all...
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