P&P & Quilts
Visitors to Jane Austen’s House Museum, fondly known as Chawton Cottage, love to admire the patchwork quilt stitched by Austen, her...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 20, 2014
Darcy in Lilliput
When a twelve-foot-high fiberglass statue of wet-shirt-Darcy was erected in a famed London lake last summer, it seemed the apotheosis of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 24, 2014
Martin Amis: Saved by Jane Austen
I’m not a Martin Amis fan – The Rachel Papers so repulsed me that I’ve never cracked open another of his novels – but this interview...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 19, 2013
Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen books
Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 7, 2013
Judging books by their covers
Not too long ago – OK, it was last month, but I only just noticed – New York magazine ran a feature on the runaway popularity of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 13, 2013
Minneapolis ahoy!
I had an unbreakable date at 1 pm yesterday: that was when online registration opened for this September’s Annual General Meeting of the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 3, 2013
Beautiful Lizzy
Why is everyone so convinced that Elizabeth Bennet isn’t beautiful? This past weekend, Deborah Moggach, the screenwriter for the 2005...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 23, 2013
Jane Austen, by the book
Last Sunday, the British novelist Hilary Mantel was featured in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly "By the Book" feature, in which...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 9, 2013
Can't anyone kill this beast?
Janeite news of the week is the apparent resurrection – cue undead jokes here – of the filmed version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 25, 2013
The gratifications of delayed gratification
The wild success of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the web series updating Pride and Prejudice to contemporary California, has gotten me...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 4, 2013
Anniversaries and explanations
January 28 marked the two hundredth anniversary of the publication of Pride and Prejudice, and predictably the occasion generated a...
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