Deborah YaffeAug 20, 2020Who's in?Three years ago, blog readers will recall, a branch of the UK’s Society of Young Publishers sponsored a Jane Austen pub quiz – i.e., a...
Deborah YaffeJun 22, 2020The Jane Austen Guide to QuarantineFor many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...
Deborah YaffeMar 11, 2019Elizabeth Beeblebrox, anyone?Just a few days after my uncharitable swipe at those who promulgate Austenian misinformation, a reminder of human fallibility crossed my...
Deborah YaffeFeb 19, 2018Jane Austen tidbitsAlthough it’s been a quiet few weeks on the Austen beat, at least compared with last year’s bicentenary frenzy, a few bits of Janeite...
Deborah YaffeJan 4, 2018Austen quizzingJane Austen is no stranger to the quiz-show world, on either side of the pond: As blog readers will recall, just four years ago, she got...
Deborah YaffeAug 28, 2017A bit of a quizAmong Britain’s many contributions to world culture, the pub quiz – a trivia bowl stripped of the unpleasantly stressful requirement to...
Deborah YaffeApr 10, 2014Win big by reading Jane AustenShe’s a brilliant prose stylist, a peerless satirist, the creator of indelible characters. Yeah, yeah, but it turns out that the real...