Taking liberties
In 2021, London theatergoers got a Pride and Prejudice with interpolated pop songs and an all-female cast. In 2022, they got a...
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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
Jan 22
A stroll in paradise
Last year, I was lucky enough to spend a day at the Huntington, a place to see rare books, great artwork, and spectacular botanical...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 4
Jane-talk, sponsored
Back in the summer of 2022, TikTok kicked off its inaugural book club with a group reading of Persuasion. Allegedly, the TikTok Book Club...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 21, 2023
The sounds of Jane Austen Christmas
Emma Woodhouse’s Christmas holiday is not a good one, as readers of Emma will recall: On Christmas Eve, she fends off Mr. Elton’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 30, 2023
It's that time again
Signs of autumn: Falling leaves. Halloween pumpkins. And the Annual General Meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America, which...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 23, 2023
In the mind's eye
Jane Austen’s physical descriptions of her characters are famously sparse. But if you ask me, Anne Elliot, Emma Woodhouse, and Elizabeth...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 2, 2023
Treasure chest
Chawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward, is one of the treasures of the Janeite...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 25, 2023
Dress-up for grownups
As blog readers will recall, the Library of Congress hosted its first-ever Literary Costume Ball earlier this month. Since then, I’ve...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 31, 2023
Calling all bookish cosplayers
Quick! Waste no time! You have until today at noon (US Eastern) to enter the lottery for free tickets to the Library of Congress’...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 27, 2023
Summer fun
Chawton House, the Elizabethan mansion in Hampshire, England, once owned by Jane Austen’s brother Edward Austen Knight, has had a busy...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 20, 2023
Semi-native daughter
Jane Austen’s stays in the southern English port of Southampton were short-ish and not especially happy. As a seven-year-old, she...
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