Weird Austen
Sometimes, the Jane Austen mentions you find on the internet are seriously stupid. Other times, they’re just seriously weird. This month,...
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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
May 19, 2019
Mistakes, misquotes, misunderstandings
Today on “Making Fun of the Internet,” a roundup of the latest Jane Austen-related stupid stuff that has crossed my cyber-transom...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 31, 2019
CliffsNotes for kiddies
I am all in favor of introducing young people to great literature, even great literature they are probably too young to fully appreciate....
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 17, 2019
Eternally Mr. Darcy
Pity poor Colin Firth. His IMDB page lists more than seventy-five film and TV credits in a career stretching back thirty-five years, and...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 7, 2019
Getting it wrong
Jane Austen, it seems safe to say, is one of the most famous writers who ever lived, especially in English-speaking countries. Yet out...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 18, 2019
What's your name again?
It’s always enjoyable when the mass media provide opportunities for us Janeites to snark about everyone else’s Austen ignorance. Today’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 21, 2019
Printer error
Few expressions of Janeite commitment are as permanent -- not to mention as painful -- as the Jane Austen tattoo. Therefore, I’d have...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 13, 2018
Desperately seeking romance in Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf famously wrote of Jane Austen that “of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” Let...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 29, 2018
On this day in 1812. . .
Thirty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Talk about burying the lead. The letter that Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 15, 2018
Missing pieces
From time to time, you happen across a story that makes clear how entirely some people miss the point of Jane Austen. For instance, when...
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