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Feb 20, 2020

On 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 Yaffe

Mar 25, 2019

On 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 Yaffe

Jan 17, 2019

Family album

The Janeite world is a-twitter (and a-Twitter) this week over the serendipitous discovery of a Victorian photo album filled with pictures...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 30, 2017

Provender, Austen, and the tsar

Pity the poor aristocrat. Your stately home is decaying, your heating bill is through the (leaky) roof, and you lack the millions...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 20, 2017

On 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 Yaffe

Mar 13, 2017

On 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 Yaffe

Nov 30, 2015

On 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...

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