Shades of Pemberley
Jane Austen’s name and image have been appropriated for so many ancillary items – fridge magnets, tote bags, coffee mugs, temporary...
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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
Dec 21, 2017
Christmas comes early for Janeites
People who do not write fiction often have trouble believing that novelists just, you know, make stuff up. These readers seize upon every...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 18, 2017
Jane Austen, flyin' high
It’s not every day that you get to put Jane Austen and Freddie Mercury in the same sentence. But thanks to Norwegian Airlines, a budget...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 7, 2017
Golden fiver on the block
How time flies. It’s been exactly a year since a Scottish art gallery announced that Graham Short, an artist known for his teeny-tiny...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 8, 2017
Serial-number currency
When is $13 worth $9,410? When it’s embodied in a low-serial-number Jane Austen banknote, apparently. Last week, the Bank of England...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 27, 2017
Bye-bye to benches
As summer turns to autumn, the Jane Austen bicentenary year enters its final quarter, and winding-up is in the air. The latest evidence:...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 13, 2017
At last: The Austen tenner
It’s official: Starting today, Brits will be able to buy their tea, their scones -- even their books -- with a fistful of Jane Austen £10...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 10, 2017
Portable Pemberley
We all have our own idea of Pemberley, the quintessential Jane Austen estate. On film, it’s been played by gorgeous Lyme Park, in...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 20, 2017
The bicentenary lives on
The Jane Austen bicentenary is already a month in the rearview mirror, but cute little tie-in pieces are still turning up online –...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 16, 2017
More Austen therapy
Lately, Audible, the audiobook company owned by Amazon, seems to be having a bit of a Jane Austen moment. Earlier this month, as you’ll...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 23, 2017
Jane Austen lives!
When I was researching Among the Janeites, a former president of the Jane Austen Society of North America told me a charming story about...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 9, 2017
All the famous ladies
More than eighty years ago, a famous art historian commissioned two famous painters (one of them related to an even more famous writer)...
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