Dancing with Willoughby
Who’s Your Favorite Darcy is, by now, a classic Janeite pastime, pitting fervent Firthians against zealous MacFadyenites, while small but...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 30, 2021
Quill and paper
In Sense and Sensibility, as Janeites will recall, Elinor Dashwood and her rival, Lucy Steele, spend a tense evening sparring genteelly...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 26, 2021
Un-bingeing
Unlike so many novelists of the Victorian period, Jane Austen didn’t publish her books in serial form. The first readers of, say, David...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 22, 2021
Persuasion everywhere
Persuasion is having quite a year. Last December, a charmless modern update called Modern Persuasion – the dull, on-the-nose title gave...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 22, 2021
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
- 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...
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