Deborah YaffeMay 14, 2017Sometimes folly is folly“To put it bluntly, he was screwing her.” It’s not every day that my Jane Austen Google alert yields a line like that. Especially when...
Deborah YaffeMay 10, 2017Stealing Home?In Austen studies, originality is hard to come by. The primary sources – novels, letters, family reminiscences, unfinished work – are...
Deborah YaffeApr 17, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: John HalperinWork on Jane Austen, whether biography or literary criticism, arrays itself along a spectrum whose poles might be labeled Jolly Jane and...
Deborah YaffeMar 30, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Elizabeth JenkinsFor someone who led such a short, uneventful life, and one about which comparatively little is known, Jane Austen has inspired a...
