Pride and Prejudice | DeborahYaffe.com 10/23

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

Sticker shock

Apparently, it’s not just gas and hotel rooms: Pandemic-era inflation has also hit the rare book market. Or so we learned from a recent...

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May 19, 2022

Killing Mr. Darcy

You’ve heard it before: Modern men can’t measure up to Jane Austen’s heroes. Straight, female Janeites are hooked on impossible...

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May 2, 2022

One of Us

For a long time, we have known that at least one* Janeite lives barely a heartbeat away from the British throne: Seven years ago,...

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Apr 14, 2022

What lies beneath

In popular culture, Jane Austen is the avatar of buttoned-up romance – love stories featuring heroines concealed under long skirts and...

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Apr 4, 2022

Beach trip

If you prefer your Jane Austen adaptations to be set in the Regency, it’s shaping up to be a good year: Sanditon’s second season has...

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Mar 28, 2022

Bonnetfest

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away – in other words, in mid-2019 -- I wrote about a traveling exhibition of costumes from Jane...

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Mar 17, 2022

Jane all around

Jane Austen turns up in the most unexpected places, doesn’t she? Here’s where she’s been in the past week: --Jane Austen and true crime:...

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Jan 31, 2022

Pride and penitentiary

The white supremacist sympathizer assigned to read Pride and Prejudice will now have enough time to get through all six of Jane Austen’s...

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Jan 24, 2022

A wet shirt and a centennial

The venerable British Broadcasting Corporation turns 100 this year, a century after the launch of its first daily radio service. To mark...

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Jan 20, 2022

Pop quiz

Back in my school days, we eager young grade-grubbers used to trade advice on which teachers marked harshly and which were more...

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Jan 10, 2022

Crunch time

Kids! Always leaving their homework to the last minute! Last summer, as blog readers will recall, a British judge sentenced a young man...

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Dec 9, 2021

Brass

Jane Austen, it seems, is the go-to novelist for anyone who wants to write about money. In 1937, the poet W.H. Auden famously remarked...

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Oct 11, 2021