Deborah YaffeAug 31, 2015The women we love (or love to hate)Another day, another artificially constructed list of literary favorites on which Jane Austen ranks high. Today’s entry is the “Top 15 of...
Deborah YaffeAug 17, 2015Austen tops another listIt’s always pleasant when Jane Austen makes another greatest-novels-of-all-time list, so we Janeites can’t help but cheer that, as the...
Deborah YaffeJul 16, 2015It was 20 years ago today (almost). . .The year 1995 marked what I’ve called the Big Bang of contemporary Jane Austen fandom: Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s famous...
Deborah YaffeApr 16, 2015The Austen Fiasco?Halfway to the finish line, the Austen Project is looking increasingly like the Austen Fiasco. The Austen Project, as you may recall, is...
Deborah YaffeJan 1, 2015A Jane Austen yearJane Austen isn't just everywhere; she's all the time. After a busy year celebrating Mansfield Park's two hundredth anniversary,...
Deborah YaffeOct 27, 2014Oh, those dear little womenAlexander McCall Smith, I’m told, is a delightful writer. But you wouldn’t know it from his rambling, unfocused and kind of dumb piece...
Deborah YaffeOct 20, 2014Must stop can't stopI really should stop. Don’t torture myself, right? Just surrender my Jane Austen Critical Faculties license, turn in my Janeite Purist...
Deborah YaffeSep 11, 2014Another brick in the wallWas it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...
Deborah YaffeDec 19, 2013Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen booksLook, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...