Bicentenary envy
The year 2017 brings two severe trials for American Janeites. The first is our inevitable sadness at marking the bicentenary of Jane...
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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 2, 2017
A whirlwind new year for Janeites
Happy new year, Janeites! For us fans of Jane Austen, 2017 is a big year, the biggest since – well, since 2013, when we celebrated the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 19, 2016
JASNA, Emma, and D.C.
By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way to Washington, D.C., to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s thirty-eighth...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 21, 2016
Rosenbach reading group
Discussing Jane Austen with fellow fans is one of the delights of Janeite life. If I lived closer to Philly, I would definitely have...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 6, 2016
Worldwide Janeite partying
As summer weeks go, the week ahead is looking pretty good for Jane Austen fans: * Tomorrow and Saturday, the Janeites of Port Alberni, in...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 8, 2016
My old Kentucky scone
It is one of my life’s small, poignant sorrows that I have not yet made it to the Jane Austen Festival in Louisville, Kentucky, which by...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 27, 2016
Austen stories on stage
Listening to a really good actor read aloud from a really good book is one of life’s great pleasures, not to mention my go-to strategy...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 13, 2016
Jane Austen Day in Philly
The Eastern Pennsylvania Region of the Jane Austen Society of North America is, as my inbox can attest, a busy and ambitious group. Their...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 10, 2016
Talking Jane Austen fanfiction
My next book-related event is scheduled for this Wednesday, April 13, in Princeton, NJ: I’ll be speaking at our lovely independent...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 20, 2016
Lip gloss meets hamentashen
The holiday of Purim, which begins on Wednesday night, is the Jewish version of Mardi Gras: to commemorate the Biblical tale of how Queen...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 16, 2016
Setting Mansfield Park to music
The ordinary happiness and quiet heartbreak of Jane Austen's novels hardly seem to fit the melodramatic template of so many grand operas,...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 25, 2016
Supper time
Toronto, it seems, is a really great place to be a Janeite. Last year, the local Jane Austen re-enactment community -- as best I can...
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