Sanditon, the convention
In the past three years, Sanditon, the TV series based on Jane Austen’s last unfinished novel, has roller-coastered through a dizzying...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 15, 2021
Cross-channel connections
Jane Austen is usually thought of as a quintessentially English writer, what with all those landed estates, rural rectories, and mannerly...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 13, 2019
Busting Austen myths
Most Janeites don’t need to hear, yet again, that Jane Austen was not a kindly maiden aunt whose sweet, insubstantial little romance...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 29, 2018
A pen dipped in vitriol
New this week: The latest entry in the annals of Jane Austen Bizarro World (or, to be honest, Jane Austen-Adjacent Bizarro World). Three...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 5, 2017
Déjà vu all over again
I love the British press. When it comes to Jane Austen, they can manufacture a story out of the thinnest gossamer. Even recycled...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 11, 2017
Stealing Home?
In Austen studies, originality is hard to come by. The primary sources – novels, letters, family reminiscences, unfinished work – are...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 4, 2013
Picturing Austen
Pity the poor Bank of England. They had no idea what they were getting themselves into. Back in July, when the Bank announced plans to...
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