Too darn hot
The dog days of summer are approaching, and perhaps that’s why the amount of Stupid Jane Austen Stuff coming my way seems to have ramped...
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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
Mar 20, 2019
Jane Austen Purim
Today is Purim, the Jewish version of Mardi Gras, on which we eat a big meal, dress in silly costumes, read the Biblical book of Esther,...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 1, 2018
International (mis)understanding
With their film adaptations and their fanfics and their Austen societies, residents of the Indian subcontinent seem to love Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 8, 2018
On this day in 1814. . .
Thirty-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Two centuries ago, Jane Austen had spent her day...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 25, 2017
Christmas tranquility and tedium at Mansfield Park
For those of us with school-age children, Christmas week provides a delightful break from the rhythms of the academic calendar: No rising...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 16, 2017
More pictures of Fanny
Earlier this month, Janeites were delighted when the Folio Society publishers and the House of Illustration, a London gallery devoted to...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 2, 2017
Pictures of Fanny
Those of us who first encountered Jane Austen on the page of a book without illustrations -- rather than on a movie screen -- probably...
Deborah Yaffe
May 25, 2016
On this day in 1801. . .
Thirteenth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. Finding biographical resonances in Jane Austen’s writing is a...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 16, 2016
Setting Mansfield Park to music
The ordinary happiness and quiet heartbreak of Jane Austen's novels hardly seem to fit the melodramatic template of so many grand operas,...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 7, 2016
Getting it wrong, again
It’s time again for one of my favorite pastimes: Making Fun of the Internet – Jane Austen Edition. Today’s episode includes two entries: ...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 3, 2016
On this day in 1814. . .
Eleventh in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters Henry Austen, the fourth-oldest of Jane Austen’s seven siblings,...
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