The Austen Catch-Up Project: The Jane Austen Cookbook
England is a wonderful country. Its history is rich, its democracy is a model for the world, its literature is second to none. Its food...
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. . . 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 28, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Marrying Mr. Darcy
In Jane Austen’s novels, the quest for a suitable marriage partner is serious business. By law, Regency women surrendered most of their...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 23, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jocelyn Harris
When Jane Austen described her work as “the little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 28, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Sarah Emsley
Perhaps because Jane Austen’s writing feels so fresh and modern, it’s tempting to imagine her as a contemporary who shares our...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 10, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Collins Hemingway
Jane Austen fanfiction is a female-dominated field. That’s not surprising: Twenty-first-century Austen fandom is heavily female, and many...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 27, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jane Juska
Let us stipulate that Mrs. Bennet draws the short straw. Her clever, ironic husband treats her with thinly disguised disrespect. Her...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 29, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jenny Uglow
The classics are timeless, we are told. Their freshness has no sell-by date; their concerns seem as urgent in our times as in the times...
Deborah Yaffe
May 29, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Roy and Lesley Adkins
The 2007 movie of Karen Joy Fowler’s novel The Jane Austen Book Club opens with a montage designed to evoke the noise, stress and...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 17, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: John Halperin
Work on Jane Austen, whether biography or literary criticism, arrays itself along a spectrum whose poles might be labeled Jolly Jane and...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 30, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Elizabeth Jenkins
For someone who led such a short, uneventful life, and one about which comparatively little is known, Jane Austen has inspired a...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 29, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: As If!
I love Clueless. Doesn’t everyone? Last summer marked the twentieth anniversary of the film’s release, and the milestone inspired a slew...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 28, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Austentatious
In 1913, Sybil G. Brinton, the thirty-eight-year-old daughter of a wealthy carpet manufacturer from Worcestershire, England, published...
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