Deborah YaffeMar 20, 2023Bait and switch?“Jane Austen’s Birthplace Hits the Market”! “Your chance to live in the beloved author’s treasured family home”! When these headlines...
Deborah YaffeMar 2, 2023Phone booksBack in 2017, Jane Austen’s birthplace, the Hampshire village of Steventon, marked the bicentennial of her death by converting a disused...
Deborah YaffeJan 9, 2023On this day in 1801. . .Eighty-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. In January 1801, the twenty-five-year-old Jane Austen was...
Deborah YaffeMay 12, 2022On this day in 1801. . .Seventy-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. How autobiographical is Jane Austen’s writing? Impossible...
Deborah YaffeJan 6, 2020Excessively fond of a cottageIf only the Austens had invested in Steventon real estate. Back in 1801, as Janeites will recall, the Rev. George Austen moved out of the...
Deborah YaffeApr 30, 2017Jane lies in WinchesterNow that this Austen bicentenary year is in full swing, the announcements of commemorative events pegged to the July 18 anniversary of...
Deborah YaffeNov 23, 2015A very (expensive) Jane Austen ChristmasIf you are a Janeite with no 2016 Christmas plans – and a whole wad of cash left over from this year’s gift shopping – the New York Times...
