Deborah YaffeOct 23, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jocelyn HarrisWhen Jane Austen described her work as “the little bit (two inches wide) of Ivory on which I work with so fine a Brush, as produces...
Deborah YaffeSep 28, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Sarah EmsleyPerhaps because Jane Austen’s writing feels so fresh and modern, it’s tempting to imagine her as a contemporary who shares our...
Deborah YaffeAug 10, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Collins HemingwayJane Austen fanfiction is a female-dominated field. That’s not surprising: Twenty-first-century Austen fandom is heavily female, and many...
Deborah YaffeJul 27, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jane JuskaLet us stipulate that Mrs. Bennet draws the short straw. Her clever, ironic husband treats her with thinly disguised disrespect. Her...
Deborah YaffeJun 29, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jenny UglowThe classics are timeless, we are told. Their freshness has no sell-by date; their concerns seem as urgent in our times as in the times...
Deborah YaffeMay 29, 2016The Austen Catch-Up Project: Roy and Lesley AdkinsThe 2007 movie of Karen Joy Fowler’s novel The Jane Austen Book Club opens with a montage designed to evoke the noise, stress and...
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...
Deborah YaffeNov 20, 2014Austen first impressionsMargaret C. Sullivan*, known for the past decade as the editrix of AustenBlog, picked her first Jane Austen paperback off a drugstore’s...
