Deborah YaffeJul 18What remainsTwo hundred and seven years ago today, Jane Austen died in Winchester, England, at the age of forty-one. It’s easy to forget how...
Deborah YaffeJul 24, 2023On this day in 1806. . . Eighty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. I’ve noted before that, as a poet, Jane Austen was a great...
Deborah YaffeSep 16, 2021On this day in 1813. . .Sixty-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Nostalgia for Jane Austen’s era has always struck me as...
Deborah YaffeFeb 20, 2020On this day in 1817. . .Fifty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s no secret that Jane Austen held a jaundiced view of the...
Deborah YaffeMar 25, 2019On this day in 1817. . .Forty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Those of us who feel strongly about books sometimes subject...
Deborah YaffeJan 17, 2019Family albumThe Janeite world is a-twitter (and a-Twitter) this week over the serendipitous discovery of a Victorian photo album filled with pictures...
Deborah YaffeNov 30, 2017Provender, Austen, and the tsarPity the poor aristocrat. Your stately home is decaying, your heating bill is through the (leaky) roof, and you lack the millions...
Deborah YaffeNov 20, 2017On this day in 1814. . .Twenty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only six of Jane Austen’s letters to her oldest niece,...
Deborah YaffeMar 13, 2017On this day in 1817. . . Twenty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Jane Austen: realist or romantic? Cynic or softie? You’ll...
Deborah YaffeNov 30, 2015On this day in 1814. . .Ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. We know so little of Jane Austen’s views on nearly everything that...
