Deborah YaffeNov 19, 2020Mother of controversySome years ago – six? Ten? – I stumbled across a mention of an intriguing campaign to raise money for a statue of Mary Wollstonecraft, to...
Deborah YaffeMay 31, 2020Jane Austen's new lookThese days, the internet is awash in posts purporting to explain why social distancing in the Time of Coronavirus is amusingly or...
Deborah YaffeApr 3, 2019Statues, statues everywhereRemember back in elementary school, when one kid would get an awesome new toy or a cool pair of shoes, and then everybody had to have...
Deborah YaffeFeb 28, 2019Enough alreadyIs it possible to have too much Jane Austen? Apparently, the good citizens of Winchester, England, think it is. Last fall, Winchester...
Deborah YaffeDec 20, 2018An embarrassment of Austen statuesEighteen months ago, not a single statue of Jane Austen was on public display anywhere in the world. And now, it appears, we will soon...
Deborah YaffeJun 20, 2018A statue for ChawtonThe Hampshire village of Chawton is the mecca of the Janeite faith: the community where Austen spent the last eight years of her life,...
Deborah YaffeJul 30, 2017Camera-readyAmong the many, many activities taking place on the bicentennial of Jane Austen’s death earlier this month was the unveiling of a new...
Deborah YaffeJan 23, 2017Bronzing AustenNobody knows what Jane Austen looked like. Nobody will ever know what Jane Austen looked like. So, naturally, we’ll soon have a new image...
