Happy birthday, JAS
A thousand years ago – or, actually, back in January – the big Janeite news of 2020 was shaping up to be the eightieth anniversary of the...
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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
Jun 24, 2020
Online Austen everywhere
A month or two ago, there was no joy in Austenland, as, one by one, treasured Jane Austen events fell victim to coronavirus cancelation....
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 17, 2020
Lemonade in Louisville
Among the many long-scheduled events that have fallen victim to our coronavirus moment, the annual Jane Austen Festival in Louisville,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 10, 2020
Tuning in to Chawton House
Even in quarantine – especially in quarantine? -- Janeites apparently can’t get enough Jane Austen. Or so we might conclude from the...
Deborah Yaffe
May 24, 2020
The great (virtual) outdoors
Fresh off their successful Lockdown Literary Festival earlier this month, the indefatigable folks who run Chawton House, the stately home...
Deborah Yaffe
May 13, 2020
Literature in lockdown
Like everyone else, the Janeite community has been battered by pandemic and lockdown, with iconic tourist sites closed and financially...
Deborah Yaffe
May 3, 2020
Bummer :-(
When Elinor Dashwood learns (as she thinks) that the love of her life, Edward Ferrars, has finally married his longtime fiancée, she is...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 10, 2020
Miss Austen disposes
Another day, another Jane Austen event I wish I could attend. Tomorrow, Gill Hornby, whose new novel Miss Austen explores the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 2, 2020
Eighty years on
The year that began yesterday will not bring us any important Jane Austen anniversaries: The bicentenaries of her death and of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 30, 2019
Model city
Now this is a community event I can get behind. Over the weekend of January 10-12, the city of Modesto in California’s Central Valley is...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 2, 2019
Forty years and counting
It’s that time again, Janeites: The Jane Austen Society of North America is holding its Annual General Meeting (AGM) over the next four...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 7, 2019
Oh, those clothes. .
The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...
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