Crossover artist
Jane Austen is the ultimate crossover artist, with an unchallenged position in both literary studies and popular culture. (Hey, didn’t...
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Journalist and author
The Line of Thought
. . . to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.
--Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 14
Sacred space
Jane Austen breathed her last on July 18, 1817, in rented rooms at 8 College Street in the English cathedral city of Winchester. For...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 11
Regency stylings
A few months ago, I noted with surprise that I was eagerly anticipating my next visit to a place I often describe as the most boring...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 7
On this day in 1813. . .
Ninety-seventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. What tribute does a friend owe to a published author?...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 4
Winning ribbons
In chapter 27 of Emma , sweet but dim Harriet Smith dithers over her shopping, while Emma Woodhouse tries “with all the force of her own...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 31
Three plus one
Pity the poor Austen blogger. The minute you write , “ No fewer than three Austenian adaptations may be making their way to our TV...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28
Jane Austen studied here
Jane Austen’s formal education was brief. Between the ages of seven and ten, she spent a little over two years attending two different...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 24
Center of celebration
If next year’s celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth has an epicenter, it would surely be Jane Austen’s House , the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 21
New material
In case you feared running short of new Jane Austen-themed television, you can stop worrying: No fewer than three Austenian adaptations...
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