Coming attraction
Apparently, I am not the only person who never tires of romcoms in which a Jane Austen fan’s romantic life starts to mirror Austen’s...
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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
- Aug 26
The luxury of time
Summer is winding down, but there’s still time to squeeze in some vacation reading. And if you prefer that your books come in beautifully...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 11
Not so historical
Jane Austen’s novels make it onto a lot of best-of lists, and I am usually happy when they do. But not last month, when both Pride and...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 25, 2023
Digging in
It’s December 25! Time for everyone’s favorite Christmas tradition: A trip to the movies, followed by a delicious dinner of steamed...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 30, 2023
Second chances
July 1997. A lavish birthday party for a controversial royal paramour. Her old flame and current lover, the future king of England, rises...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 27, 2023
Short and sweet
Fellow novelists do not invariably appreciate Jane Austen—looking at you, Charlotte Brontë!—but it’s always a pleasure when they do. And...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 9, 2023
Jane Austen speaks . . . sort of
On October 3, I conducted a Facebook Messenger chat with Jane Austen, or at least with the AI named after her--one of twenty-eight AI...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 22, 2023
Listening pleasure
It’s been a sadly long time since I strolled through the garden at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 12, 2023
Alumni reunions
Over the holidays, my family settled in for a screening of that sublime romcom Notting Hill. When the movie ended (“I’m just a girl,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 1, 2022
CryptoJane, Part II
Jane Austen’s famous remark about the relative value of tangible and intangible assets–“tho’ I like praise as well as anybody, I like...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 28, 2022
Regency reality
For some Janeites, fandom entails an intense engagement with the material details of Austen’s world. These Janeites are the people who...
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