Deborah YaffeJul 29, 2021Even more persuadableLast week, I reported on proliferating Persuasion adaptations – a straight-to-streaming update that aired last December, two period...
Deborah YaffeJul 26, 2021Haters will hateShooting has begun on the second season of Sanditon, the ITV/PBS series based on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. A...
Deborah YaffeJul 22, 2021Persuasion everywherePersuasion is having quite a year. Last December, a charmless modern update called Modern Persuasion – the dull, on-the-nose title gave...
Deborah YaffeJul 19, 2021A Janeite passes onTwo months ago, I noted a Janeite milestone: the one hundredth birthday of Helen Lefroy, a dedicated Janeite with a familial link to Jane...
Deborah YaffeJul 15, 2021On fireNearly two years ago, word trickled out that a same-sex update of Pride and Prejudice, set on the gay mecca of New York’s Fire Island,...
Deborah YaffeJul 12, 2021The dating gameSome weeks, it’s not clear what tidbit of gossip or news deserves mention as the biggest story in Jane Austen fandom. Other weeks, a...
Deborah YaffeJul 8, 2021A poet of the ordinaryA poet whose work I didn’t know died the other day. Stephen Dunn was a Pulitzer Prize winner who “specialized in poems about surviving,...
Deborah YaffeJul 5, 2021Back in the screening roomLast year, as beloved Jane Austen festivals across the globe moved online, one brand-new event managed an in-person debut, complete with...
Deborah YaffeJul 1, 2021On this day in 1808. . . Sixty-fifth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. You know how as soon as you return from vacation, it feels as...
