Deborah YaffeAug 1, 2019Greatest Hits, Part IIAs I have pointed out rather often, most recently earlier this week, the Internet is filled with quotes from filmed adaptations of Jane...
Deborah YaffeFeb 18, 2019What's your name again?It’s always enjoyable when the mass media provide opportunities for us Janeites to snark about everyone else’s Austen ignorance. Today’s...
Deborah YaffeMay 24, 2018On 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 YaffeJan 25, 2018Jane Austen, romance novels, and a chihuahuaJane Austen’s relationship to the romance novel is a vexed topic. For every article calling her the founding mother of the genre (or...
Deborah YaffeJan 11, 2018Mr. Darcy, eating out of your handSome years ago, I attended a picnic sponsored by my local branch of the Jane Austen Society of North America, to which a fellow JASNA...
Deborah YaffeJun 19, 2017Darcy in D.C.“The new Darcy Hotel. . . is named for that taciturn hero of Jane Austen’s,” the Washington Times wrote earlier this month, at the outset...
Deborah YaffeMay 8, 2017Book coversJane Austen and sex: By now, you’ve heard all the arguments. 1. She’s a sex-free zone, where female modesty and male decorum are prized...
Deborah YaffeFeb 27, 2017Context is everythingOnce or twice in the past, I have mentioned my aversion to lists of Jane Austen quotes – or mugs with Jane Austen quotes, or, indeed, any...
Deborah YaffeFeb 13, 2017Dweeby DarcyEdward IV, who reigned as king of England for most of the period from 1461-1483, was described by contemporaries as an unusually handsome...