Being Bennet(t)
When I read fanfiction that updates Jane Austen’s stories to contemporary settings, I often find myself exasperated by the names....
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Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 4, 2020
The Austen prescription
Jane Austen’s power to console during times of trauma is an established trope by now: cue mention of how British authorities prescribed...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 7, 2020
On and off
For those of us who love our Jane Austen adaptations, the coronavirus quarantine has been the best of times and the worst of times. The...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 20, 2020
From museum to house
Two years ago, Chawton House Library – a research center for the study of early English writing by women, located in an Elizabethan...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 16, 2020
Tuning in to P&P
Last week’s online premiere of a new musical version of Pride and Prejudice, streamed for free by Streaming Musicals, drew a more than...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 13, 2020
More Austen for the quarantined
Just in case last Friday’s live-on-tape streaming version of a Pride and Prejudice musical hasn’t slaked your thirst for Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 9, 2020
Replenishing the larder
At this point, roughly three weeks into All-American Shelter at Home, you -- the average Janeite -- have probably watched, or re-watched,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 5, 2020
Book nerds unite
I was a teenage book nerd. Also a pre-teen one. And an adult one. Basically, I’ve had my nose in a book (or, more recently, my eyes on a...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 30, 2020
Keeping up with the Janeites, Part II
In September, we suspected. We hoped. We crossed our fingers. And now it’s confirmed. In perhaps the least likely household on Planet...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 13, 2020
Bewitching
Search engine optimization and web analytics are topics about which I know very little. (OK: nothing.) So when Google sends me its...
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