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Feb 22

Three weeks, three books (or is it four?)

Jane Austen sightings are like buses: Sometimes, you don’t get one for ages, and sometimes, they come in bunches. These last few weeks...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 17, 2020

Eternal verities

Despite the strangeness of this year, some eternal verities remain. Snowflakes. Evergreens. Misquoting Jane Austen. A few highlights of...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 2, 2020

Keeping up with the Kambridges

Trendy fashion accessories come and go. One year, it’s thigh-high red boots and black berets; the next it’s purple shoes and tiny...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 16, 2020

Feverish

No one in Jane Austen’s novels becomes infected with a coronavirus, but that doesn’t mean she has nothing to say on the subject that now...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 9, 2020

Meg, Jo, Elinor, Marianne

Like all American girls, I loved Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and when I shared it with my daughter many years after my first...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 5, 2019

Jane Austen's side hustle

These days, it takes a lot for an instance of Austenian inaccuracy to surprise me. I hardly turn a hair when quotes from Austen screen...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 28, 2019

Family dinner

As we sit down to our turkey tonight, perhaps in company with relatives or acquaintances whom we carefully avoid the rest of the year,...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 4, 2019

Strange bedfellows

By now, we’ve gotten used to seeing Jane Austen in rather. . . um . . . interesting company. She’s been paired with zombies and sea...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 26, 2019

Janeite on the Potomac, Part II

Bipartisanship is sadly rare in Washington these days, so it’s refreshing to find one instance of agreement across the aisle, even in...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 29, 2019

Greatest Hits, Part I

The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 8, 2019

Oh, those clothes. .

The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 8, 2019

Jane Austen's first critic

For Janeites, it’s salt rubbed in a wound: the news that scholars will soon be able to inspect a fascinating trove of letters from an...

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