SandiCon no more
They could not be defeated by a host of implacable foes: mediocre reviews, low viewership numbers, bottom-line-driven corporate...
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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
Nov 11, 2021
Austen and Asia
Last year, as George Floyd’s murder sparked a racial reckoning around the globe, the public humanities collaborative Jane Austen & Co....
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 8, 2021
Time travel
We EngLit types are not always as adept at math as we are at literary analysis. But we’ll need to brush up our arithmetical skills this...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 4, 2021
Normal-ish
Is the pandemic over yet? The answer, of course, depends on where you live, but one hopeful sign that some of us are partway back to...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 30, 2021
Autumn footsteps
Wandering around the English countryside in early autumn while talking about literature: sounds idyllic, no? And so I sighed enviously as...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 30, 2021
Quill and paper
In Sense and Sensibility, as Janeites will recall, Elinor Dashwood and her rival, Lucy Steele, spend a tense evening sparring genteelly...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2021
Raising Jane(ites)
Long ago, I danced at a JASNA ball with a twelve-year-old girl who, when I asked if she was a Janeite, told me that she had “been raised...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 9, 2021
Project Austen Runway
A New York bridal-gown designer wants to give away made-to-order, Jane Austen-inspired couture dresses. No one’s interested, I assume. As...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 5, 2021
Back in the screening room
Last year, as beloved Jane Austen festivals across the globe moved online, one brand-new event managed an in-person debut, complete with...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 24, 2021
Sanditon, the convention
In the past three years, Sanditon, the TV series based on Jane Austen’s last unfinished novel, has roller-coastered through a dizzying...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 29, 2021
Virtual Austenland
We all hope our offscreen lives will soon resume, but in the meantime, our gatherings remain virtual. For Janeites, that’s meant online...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 15, 2021
Cross-channel connections
Jane Austen is usually thought of as a quintessentially English writer, what with all those landed estates, rural rectories, and mannerly...
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