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...
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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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 13, 2018
Desperately seeking romance in Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf famously wrote of Jane Austen that “of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” Let...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 2, 2018
International (mis)understanding
With their film adaptations and their fanfics and their Austen societies, residents of the Indian subcontinent seem to love Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 21, 2018
Time for a mental health day
It’s been quite a while since I last discussed the unfortunate phenomenon of faux-Jane Austen quotes, usually originating in Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 3, 2017
Complaining with Jane
I like to think that I am not a complainer, but I have to admit that I've done a lot of complaining on this blog. Some of my moans are...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 6, 2017
Austen en français
Say what you will of Isabelle de Montolieu: The woman had chutzpah. In 1816, de Montolieu, a successful Swiss novelist, published her...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 26, 2016
Big eyes, bigger emotions
By now, it’s hardly news that Jane Austen’s stories have inspired adaptations in every conceivable genre and medium: zombie mashup, radio...
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