Pride and Prejudice | DeborahYaffe.com 5/24

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

The Shirt, unveiled

Sometimes launching a museum exhibition is a complicated process, as catalogs are researched, international loan agreements negotiated,...

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Jun 13, 2024

Growth spurt

Back in the 2010s, when I first started reading Jane Austen fanfic, the typical example of the genre was a romance novel, either Regency...

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May 9, 2024

Seven paragraphs to read if you want to

I should probably spend less time thinking about stupid clickbait listicles that mention Jane Austen. My mental health would improve. My...

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May 6, 2024

Playing around

For certain kinds of Janeites, nothing beats dressing up in Regency costume and—to paraphrase Mr. Bennet—exposing themselves in some...

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Apr 18, 2024

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...

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Apr 11, 2024

Questionable inspiration?

It’s always sad when a fire severely damages a family home, and even more so when the building itself has historic or architectural...

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Mar 25, 2024

Welcome, Janeites!

Apparently, not everyone in the UK opposes turning their little corner of Britain into Janeite Disneyland. Earlier this month, as...

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Mar 18, 2024

Sold!

Somewhere out there, a Jane Austen fan—perhaps someone you know! Perhaps you yourself!—is clearing space in her trophy cabinet for a...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 11, 2024

Stocking stuffer

What do you get for the Janeite who has everything? You’d think it would be easy to buy for people whose fandom has spawned an ocean of...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 29, 2024

Miss Austen, sans regrets

Never let it be said that I allowed my excitement--nay, my sheer giddy fervor!--over the Hallmark Channel’s upcoming Jane Austen month to...

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Jan 11, 2024

Headline magic

If you read the UK media, you might be forgiven for thinking that no story about British real estate is complete without a link to Jane...

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Jan 8, 2024

Jane-talk, sponsored

Back in the summer of 2022, TikTok kicked off its inaugural book club with a group reading of Persuasion. Allegedly, the TikTok Book Club...

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Jan 4, 2024