Deborah YaffeJul 8, 2019Oh, those clothes. . The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...
Deborah YaffeMay 20, 2019Mistakes, misquotes, misunderstandingsToday on “Making Fun of the Internet,” a roundup of the latest Jane Austen-related stupid stuff that has crossed my cyber-transom...
Deborah YaffeMar 18, 2019Eternally Mr. DarcyPity 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 YaffeMay 14, 2018The beautiful grounds at PemberleyBy 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 YaffeFeb 8, 2016Meme-ing of JaneJaneite creativity, while most obvious in the groaning shelves of fanfiction based on Austen’s novels, isn’t confined to any one medium:...
Deborah YaffeJan 14, 2016It 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...
Deborah YaffeMar 20, 2014Darcy in LilliputWhen a twelve-foot-high fiberglass statue of wet-shirt-Darcy was erected in a famed London lake last summer, it seemed the apotheosis of...
Deborah YaffeFeb 4, 2013Anniversaries and explanationsJanuary 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...