Events

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

Deborah Yaffe

6 days ago

Celebrating significance

At my synagogue, members sometimes engage in public religious rituals to mark what we discreetly call “significant birthdays”--in other...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 9

Jane Austen's fingerprints

In these days of standardized computer fonts and software-assisted editing, one writer’s manuscript probably looks much like another’s....

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 21

Crossover artist

Jane Austen is the ultimate crossover artist, with an unchallenged position in both literary studies and popular culture. (Hey, didn’t...

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

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 17

Desk set

The celebration of the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth won’t officially kick off until next year, but that isn’t stopping the...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 14

On foot

Jane Austen’s heroines do a lot of walking. Elizabeth Bennet strides purposefully from Longbourn to Netherfield, muddying her petticoat...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 19

Love among the stacks

Is Jane Austen a romance novelist? Discuss. Or, if you’re not interested in revisiting your test-taking days, you could just travel to...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 12

Lab work

The Race and Regency Lab, an intriguing new scholarly project that aims to “reimagine our understandings of race” in Jane Austen’s era,...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 15

Regency fashion, off the beaten path

My husband grew up in the northwestern English city of Lancaster. It is not my favorite place. The weather is frequently dank and...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 11

Stars and bonnets

If the midsummer doldrums are threatening to swallow you up, a cure may be on the horizon: The fifth annual iteration of VirtualJaneCon,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 13

The Shirt, unveiled

Sometimes launching a museum exhibition is a complicated process, as catalogs are researched, international loan agreements negotiated,...