Mr. Darcy, harasser?
Jane Austen has been used and abused in so many different ways by now, pressed into service to sell everything from perfume to romance...
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The Line of Thought
. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 31, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part II
As I have pointed out rather often, most recently earlier this week, the Internet is filled with quotes from filmed adaptations of Jane...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 18, 2019
What'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...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 23, 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,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 25, 2018
Jane Austen, romance novels, and a chihuahua
Jane Austen’s relationship to the romance novel is a vexed topic. For every article calling her the founding mother of the genre (or...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 11, 2018
Mr. Darcy, eating out of your hand
Some years ago, I attended a picnic sponsored by my local branch of the Jane Austen Society of North America, to which a fellow JASNA...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 18, 2017
Darcy 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 7, 2017
Book covers
Jane 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 27, 2017
Context is everything
Once 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 13, 2017
Dweeby Darcy
Edward IV, who reigned as king of England for most of the period from 1461-1483, was described by contemporaries as an unusually handsome...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 8, 2016
Meme-ing of Jane
Janeite creativity, while most obvious in the groaning shelves of fanfiction based on Austen’s novels, isn’t confined to any one medium:...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 19, 2015
May Jane be with you
Fandom need not be monogamous. “It's apparent that there is a fannish personality,” the dance historian Allison Thompson told me when I...
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