Deborah YaffeSep 11, 2014Another brick in the wallWas it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...
Deborah YaffeAug 25, 2014Pet Austen Peeve #83: Movie Quotes Aren't Book QuotesI suppose I should just stop banging my head against the same old brick wall. But really: if you’re going to go to the trouble of...
Deborah YaffeJun 5, 2014Comma-counting across the centuriesI’m a punctuation geek, I must admit. A fellow reporter on my college newspaper once claimed to have heard me declare, with a passion...
Deborah YaffeMar 31, 2014Austen on the (Indian) small screenMore international Jane Austen: an Indian TV channel is launching a show “based loosely” on Sense and Sensibility. (Not to be confused, I...
Deborah YaffeDec 19, 2013Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen booksLook, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...
Deborah YaffeOct 28, 2013Dissed by the Austen ProjectJoanna Trollope’s modern-dress adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the first in a planned series of six Austen updates by popular...
Deborah YaffeSep 19, 2013Hey JanePride and Prejudice is Jane Austen’s most popular novel. It’s the one that gets assigned in high school, makes the top-novels-of-all-time...
Deborah YaffeMay 27, 2013Sex in Jane AustenThe British novelist Howard Jacobson has done us all a service by pointing out the sex in Jane Austen. Not the obvious but offstage sex:...