A surfeit of sequels
Jane Austen never wrote a sequel. Among her many excellent qualities was a sure sense of when to leave well enough alone. Alas, too many...
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Deborah Yaffe
- May 2
Killing Mr. Darcy
You’ve heard it before: Modern men can’t measure up to Jane Austen’s heroes. Straight, female Janeites are hooked on impossible...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 4
What lies beneath
In popular culture, Jane Austen is the avatar of buttoned-up romance – love stories featuring heroines concealed under long skirts and...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 20
A wet shirt and a centennial
The venerable British Broadcasting Corporation turns 100 this year, a century after the launch of its first daily radio service. To mark...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 8, 2019
Oh, those clothes. .
The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 20, 2019
Mistakes, misquotes, misunderstandings
Today on “Making Fun of the Internet,” a roundup of the latest Jane Austen-related stupid stuff that has crossed my cyber-transom...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 18, 2019
Eternally Mr. Darcy
Pity poor Colin Firth. His IMDB page lists more than seventy-five film and TV credits in a career stretching back thirty-five years, and...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 14, 2018
The beautiful grounds at Pemberley
By now, pretty much every Janeite in the known universe has seen the moment in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 8, 2016
Meme-ing of Jane
Janeite creativity, while most obvious in the groaning shelves of fanfiction based on Austen’s novels, isn’t confined to any one medium:...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 14, 2016
It was (exactly) twenty years ago today. . .
People who were alive in November 1963 like to reminisce about the moment they learned that JFK had been shot. American Janeites who were...