Deborah YaffeNov 28, 2022Regency realityFor some Janeites, fandom entails an intense engagement with the material details of Austen’s world. These Janeites are the people who...
Deborah YaffeFeb 25, 2021Jane Austen in the age of ZoomA year ago, I was looking forward to my upcoming appearance at Jane Austen Day, a biannual event sponsored by the Eastern Pennsylvania...
Deborah YaffeSep 28, 2020Jane Austen in Bath, virtuallyHad 2020 not been so – well, 2020-ish – throngs of happy Janeites from across the globe would have staggered home earlier this month from...
Deborah YaffeJul 20, 2020Dining outI don’t know about you, but I miss dinner parties. You remember dinner parties: those occasions on which you gathered with friends –...
Deborah YaffeJul 9, 2020Happy birthday, JASA thousand years ago – or, actually, back in January – the big Janeite news of 2020 was shaping up to be the eightieth anniversary of the...
Deborah YaffeJan 2, 2020Eighty years onThe year that began yesterday will not bring us any important Jane Austen anniversaries: The bicentenaries of her death and of the...
Deborah YaffeMay 31, 2018Excellent women novelistsJane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, as all good Janeites know, but it’s another prominent medieval English church that will...
Deborah YaffeMay 1, 2017Jane lies in WinchesterNow that this Austen bicentenary year is in full swing, the announcements of commemorative events pegged to the July 18 anniversary of...
