Game over
About eight years ago, a software engineer named Judy L. Tyrer raised more than $100,000 on Kickstarter to develop a Jane Austen-themed...
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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
Jul 12, 2020
Passing Go
In case you were wondering how high the bar for Janeite gift-giving could be set, wonder no longer: Josh Jordan, a twenty-nine-year-old...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 21, 2020
The Jane Austen Guide to Quarantine
For many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 22, 2020
To the manor born
It’s no secret that many Jane Austen screen adaptations owe their popularity in part to the appeal of their detailed period costumes and...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 10, 2019
Elizabeth Beeblebrox, anyone?
Just a few days after my uncharitable swipe at those who promulgate Austenian misinformation, a reminder of human fallibility crossed my...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 25, 2018
Playing for keeps
Despite my near-total lack of interest in video games, I am always happy to hear of another game-creator developing an Austen-themed...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 19, 2018
Jane Austen tidbits
Although it’s been a quiet few weeks on the Austen beat, at least compared with last year’s bicentenary frenzy, a few bits of Janeite...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 4, 2018
Austen quizzing
Jane Austen is no stranger to the quiz-show world, on either side of the pond: As blog readers will recall, just four years ago, she got...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 22, 2017
Jane Austen passes Go
Last month, it seemed that Jane Austen had truly arrived in the world economy when the new £10 note bearing her portrait went into...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 6, 2017
Another option for Janeite game night
Perhaps it is because game-playing is so common in Jane Austen’s novels – think Lydia Bennet’s lottery tickets, Mary Crawford’s spirited...
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