Drinking game
This fall and winter, every Janeite workweek starts with “Austen Monday”—the evening on which the Rosenbach, Philadelphia’s museum and...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 19, 2021
Raising Jane(ites)
Long ago, I danced at a JASNA ball with a twelve-year-old girl who, when I asked if she was a Janeite, told me that she had “been raised...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 26, 2020
Jane in the time of coronavirus
For Austen fans everywhere, it’s a burning question: WWJD (What Would Jane Do) in the time of coronavirus quarantine? Luckily, we now...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 22, 2018
In Edward's library
In September 1813, Jane Austen wrote to her sister, Cassandra, from their brother Edward’s library at Godmersham Park in Kent. As regular...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 24, 2018
On this day in 1813. . .
Thirty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Although Jane Austen was, famously, not a big fan of Bath,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 26, 2017
Herding sheep
Somewhere out there, lost lambs are baa-ing to return to the fold, and a group of scholarly Bo Peeps is ready to shepherd them home. The...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 3, 2017
Tending the Austen flame
Jane Austen’s books feature plenty of quietly competent women going about their work with minimal fuss – and, sometimes, minimal...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 13, 2014
What I heard at the AGM
I’m back home after four whirlwind days at the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meeting – held this year in Montreal...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 28, 2014
Janeite heaven
I spent my weekend in Janeite heaven: Saturday at “Jane Austen Day,” a delightful conference sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania...
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