Deborah YaffeSep 7Icing on the cakeIt’s turning into a self-promoting kind of week. After taking a bow on Monday for my small contribution to the ginormous task of...
Deborah YaffeJan 5A Janeite's Janeite passes onEdith Lank, who died on New Year’s Day at the age of ninety-six, was a Janeite’s Janeite. She read and reread Austen’s novels; began...
Deborah YaffeSep 29, 2022Lucky thirteenThirty-nine years ago, during my first semester of college, I took the train from New Haven to Philadelphia to attend my first Jane...
Deborah YaffeAug 9, 2021Project Austen RunwayA New York bridal-gown designer wants to give away made-to-order, Jane Austen-inspired couture dresses. No one’s interested, I assume. As...
Deborah YaffeMay 17, 2021One hundred candlesBack in 2011, when the research for my book Among the Janeites took me on the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual tour of...
Deborah YaffeApr 29, 2021Virtual AustenlandWe all hope our offscreen lives will soon resume, but in the meantime, our gatherings remain virtual. For Janeites, that’s meant online...
Deborah YaffeApr 15, 2021Cross-channel connectionsJane Austen is usually thought of as a quintessentially English writer, what with all those landed estates, rural rectories, and mannerly...
Deborah YaffeDec 31, 2020Goodbye at last, 2020A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...
Deborah YaffeMay 4, 2020Bummer :-(When Elinor Dashwood learns (as she thinks) that the love of her life, Edward Ferrars, has finally married his longtime fiancée, she is...
Deborah YaffeOct 3, 2019Forty years and countingIt’s that time again, Janeites: The Jane Austen Society of North America is holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) over the next four...
Deborah YaffeJan 3, 2019Party like it's 2019Over the last eight years, we’ve marked a plethora of Jane Austen anniversaries: the bicentennials of the publications of all six of her...
Deborah YaffeSep 27, 2018The best companyWhen you’re off to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual conference, and the theme of that conference is Persuasion,...