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...
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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
- 6 days ago
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
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
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
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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 13, 2022
The pendulum swings
The smashing success of Netflix’s Bridgerton has ushered in a new era of multiracial casting in Regency costume dramas. This is good...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 11, 2022
Still talking
It’s never a bad time to talk about Persuasion–really, what are you doing that’s more important?--but right now may be an especially good...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 25, 2022
Cue the wine and cheese
Last spring, as blog readers will recall, the London Times announced that Persuasion was the sixth most popular book on TikTok, the...
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