Deborah YaffeJan 29Kiddie litBack when I was young and stupid, I didn’t think much of Jane Austen’s Juvenilia, the short sketches and fragments she wrote between the...
Deborah YaffeMar 6, 2023Writing womenAs a writer who is also a fan of period drama, I pay attention to the screenwriting credits on my favorite literary-minded TV...
Deborah YaffeFeb 24, 2022Women's letters, women's livesTexts and emails have much to recommend them, but it’s hard not to wonder how much their prevalence will handicap future biographers....
Deborah YaffeOct 28, 2021Boo!It’s the scary season – ghosts, witches, creaking doors in haunted houses. For Janeites, however, the Internet’s frightening capacity to...
Deborah YaffeMay 15, 2019Attic treasuresTo read the news these days, you’d think that attics across the world were bursting with the previously unsuspected memorabilia of famous...
Deborah YaffeMay 30, 2018Excellent women novelistsJane Austen is buried in Winchester Cathedral, as all good Janeites know, but it’s another prominent medieval English church that will...
Deborah YaffeOct 16, 2013Jane Austen, Jane Eyre. Whatever.I love it when things like this* turn up in my daily Google alert for "Jane Austen": "Apparently every generation needs its own version...
