Deborah YaffeMay 30Craving the miseryFive years ago, the British journalist Tanya Gold wrote a whole article about how much she dislikes Jane Austen. Now, in an article about...
Deborah YaffeMay 27Wondering about AliceChawton House, the Elizabethan mansion once owned by Jane Austen’s older brother Edward, has worked hard to transform itself from a...
Deborah YaffeMay 23Noses to the grindstoneJust three weeks after Jane Austen’s House launched its much-hyped group effort to transcribe the unpublished memoir of Austen’s older...
Deborah YaffeMay 20On this day in 1813. . .Ninety-fourth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only about two years of Jane Austen’s childhood were spent...
Deborah YaffeMay 16Mad about the RegencyThe third season of Bridgerton, Netflix’s smash-hit Regency romance series, launches today. To mark the occasion, a professor at...
Deborah YaffeMay 13Too good to checkJournalists like to joke that some stories are “too good to check”: so juicily entertaining that the last thing you want is to attempt...
Deborah YaffeMay 9Growth spurtBack in the 2010s, when I first started reading Jane Austen fanfic, the typical example of the genre was a romance novel, either Regency...
Deborah YaffeMay 6Seven paragraphs to read if you want toI should probably spend less time thinking about stupid clickbait listicles that mention Jane Austen. My mental health would improve. My...
Deborah YaffeMay 2Embroidering ChawtonThe last time I completed a significant piece of needlework (see below) was during the early months of pandemic quarantine, when being...