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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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
- Apr 4, 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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 28, 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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 17, 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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 31, 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:...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 24, 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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 20, 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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 9, 2021
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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 9, 2021
Balls in the air
Ah, the passive voice. It conceals a multitude of sins. The other day, I happened across one of my favorite genres of newspaper story:...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 6, 2021
Required reading
Last week, a British judge imposed an unusual sentence on a young man convicted of possessing terrorism-related materials. "Have you read...
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