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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...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 22, 2020
The Jane Austen Guide to Quarantine
For many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 11, 2019
Elizabeth Beeblebrox, anyone?
Just a few days after my uncharitable swipe at those who promulgate Austenian misinformation, a reminder of human fallibility crossed my...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 19, 2018
Jane Austen tidbits
Although 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 Yaffe
- Jan 4, 2018
Austen quizzing
Jane 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 Yaffe
- Aug 28, 2017
A bit of a quiz
Among Britain’s many contributions to world culture, the pub quiz – a trivia bowl stripped of the unpleasantly stressful requirement to...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 10, 2014
Win big by reading Jane Austen
She’s a brilliant prose stylist, a peerless satirist, the creator of indelible characters. Yeah, yeah, but it turns out that the real...
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