Deborah Yaffe
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Freelance journalist, Jane Austen fan, and author of two books, including Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom. New blog posts on Mondays and Thursdays at www.deborahyaffe.com
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Freelance journalist Deborah Yaffe is the author of Among the Janeites: A Journey Through the World of Jane Austen Fandom. Learn more at www.deborahyaffe.com
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A planned new #JaneAusten adaptation is taking an . . . unusual approach.
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Scary stuff
Sixteen years ago, an up-and-coming young writer and a scrappy little Philadelphia publisher hit the jackpot with a simple recipe: 1. Take eight parts out-of-copyright text of Jane Austen’s Pride and ...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A planned new #JaneAusten adaptation is taking an . . . unusual approach.
www.deborahyaffe.com/post/scary-s...
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A planned new Jane Austen adaptation is taking an . . . unusual approach.
www.deborahyaffe.com/post/scary-s...
www.deborahyaffe.com/post/scary-s...
Scary stuff
Sixteen years ago, an up-and-coming young writer and a scrappy little Philadelphia publisher hit the jackpot with a simple recipe: 1. Take eight parts out-of-copyright text of Jane Austen’s Pride and ...
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November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
A planned new Jane Austen adaptation is taking an . . . unusual approach.
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Does the backstory to a letter #JaneAusten wrote 217 years ago today include a rejected marriage proposal?
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On this day in 1808. . .
One hundred and fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. How many marriage proposals did Jane Austen turn down? The story of poor Harris Bigg-Wither, whose December 1802 p...
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November 20, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Does the backstory to a letter #JaneAusten wrote 217 years ago today include a rejected marriage proposal?
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A planned community with a #JaneAusten connection--or maybe not.
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Home sweet Wickham?
In the English county of Hampshire, some forty miles from the village where Jane Austen was born exactly 250 years ago, a new planned community is rising. Dedicated to environmental sustainability (he...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
A planned community with a #JaneAusten connection--or maybe not.
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Driving this #JaneAusten fan crazy, in an otherwise excellent adaptation of #PrideAndPrejudice.
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Pet peeve
About twenty-five minutes into Audible’s new audio adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Sir William Lucas summons Elizabeth Bennet over for a chat. “Sir Lucas! Good evening,” she greets him. That sound ...
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November 3, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Driving this #JaneAusten fan crazy, in an otherwise excellent adaptation of #PrideAndPrejudice.
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A screenwriter known for his #JaneAusten adaptations is planning some surprising new takes on her work.
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Going over to the dark side?
British screenwriter Andrew Davies turned eighty-nine last month, but he’s not slowing down. Quite the reverse. Over the past six weeks, Davies—the author of four well-known TV adaptations of Austen n...
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October 27, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A screenwriter known for his #JaneAusten adaptations is planning some surprising new takes on her work.
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Royal editions of #JaneAusten's books, on display in an actual palace.
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Playing the palace, again
In life, Jane Austen’s royal connections were minimal. As Janeites will remember, the Prince Regent, later George IV, was a fan of her work. In 1815, a chance encounter scored Austen a private tour of...
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October 23, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Royal editions of #JaneAusten's books, on display in an actual palace.
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A controversial #JaneAusten statue is finally unveiled. www.deborahyaffe.com/post/unveile...
Unveiled at last
No selfie sticks were anywhere in sight. On an overcast afternoon last week, Winchester Cathedral unveiled a life-size bronze statue of Jane Austen in its Inner Close, bringing an end to seven years o...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
A controversial #JaneAusten statue is finally unveiled. www.deborahyaffe.com/post/unveile...
A British national treasure in the latest audio version of #JaneAusten's #PrideAndPrejudice.
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Listen up, Part II
Jane Austen’s influence on Bridgerton is old news. If the whole feisty-Regency-heroines-in-marriage-plots thing didn’t give it away, there’s the testimony of Julia Quinn, the author of the romance nov...
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October 16, 2025 at 4:48 PM
A British national treasure in the latest audio version of #JaneAusten's #PrideAndPrejudice.
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Celebrating the newest #PrideAndPrejudice adaptation, in luxe style.
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Listen up
No one knows how long we’ll have to wait to see the newest screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, the buzzy Netflix version now filming in the UK. But the latest audio version of the novel, a four-...
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October 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Celebrating the newest #PrideAndPrejudice adaptation, in luxe style.
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A theatrical update of #JaneAusten's Emma, set in a very different social world.
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Essex Emma
Novelists haven’t been shy about updating Emma to various walks of contemporary life: We’ve had queer teen Emma, hetero teen Emma, Upper-East-Side-of-New-York Emma, successful-marketing-exec Emma, an...
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September 29, 2025 at 2:42 PM
A theatrical update of #JaneAusten's Emma, set in a very different social world.
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Work on the new Netflix adaptation of #JaneAusten's #PrideAndPrejudice seems to be coming along nicely.
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Then and now
The new Netflix adaptation of Pride and Prejudice seems to be coming along nicely: Press outlets in the UK have breathlessly reported on filming occurring in at least three different locations over th...
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September 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Work on the new Netflix adaptation of #JaneAusten's #PrideAndPrejudice seems to be coming along nicely.
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#JaneAusten's least favorite name, in a letter written 229 years ago.
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On this day in 1796. . .
One hundred and third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Every family has its private jokes: incomprehensible to outsiders; not necessarily all that funny, objectively spe...
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September 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
#JaneAusten's least favorite name, in a letter written 229 years ago.
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Amid the many events celebrating #JaneAusten's 250th birthday, a few designed for people who Just Want To (Re)Read The Books.
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Ready, set, read
Amid all the concerts, exhibits, tea parties, balls, walking tours, screen adaptations, and souvenir merch celebrating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, it’s refreshing to run across the o...
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September 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Amid the many events celebrating #JaneAusten's 250th birthday, a few designed for people who Just Want To (Re)Read The Books.
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A New Jersey #Janeite launches a #JaneAusten -themed pop-up bookstore.
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September 4, 2025 at 4:14 PM
A New Jersey #Janeite launches a #JaneAusten -themed pop-up bookstore.
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Did Cassandra Austen really destroy most of Jane Austen's letters?
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Who's counting?
It’s fair to say that Jane Austen was a prolific letter-writer. Deirdre Le Faye, who edited the standard edition of Austen’s correspondence, once reckoned that in her 41 years of life, Austen wrote so...
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September 1, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Did Cassandra Austen really destroy most of Jane Austen's letters?
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