Deborah YaffeJul 27Summer funChawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire, England, once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight, has had a busy...
Deborah YaffeJul 11, 2022Janeites in conversation“It is such a happiness when good people get together--and they always do,” Miss Bates exults in chapter 21 of Emma. In context, she is...
Deborah YaffeJun 30, 2022Feeding the beastThe appetite for Jane Austen-adjacent content never seems to flag, at least in the Anglophiliac precincts of PBS. If you ate up Season...
Deborah YaffeFeb 10, 2020Miss Austen disposesAnother day, another Jane Austen event I wish I could attend. Tomorrow, Gill Hornby, whose new novel Miss Austen explores the...
Deborah YaffeOct 31, 2018Never too much JaneSometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...
