February - 2022

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

Janeite on a sled

The unholy spectacle of a Russian coach berating a fifteen-year-old figure skater after an epic public fail shadowed by a doping scandal...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 28, 2022

Texts and emails have much to recommend them, but it’s hard not to wonder how much their prevalence will handicap future biographers....

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 24, 2022

Finally, NBC has released a trailer for The Courtship, the upcoming reality-TV show featuring Austen-era costumes and dating rituals, and...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 21, 2022

Seventy-second in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Exactly 209 years ago today, Jane Austen wrote a letter...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 17, 2022

As Valentine’s Day dawns, all across the Netflix-speaking Janeite world, we are waiting impatiently for the new film adaptation of Jane...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 14, 2022

Sanditon, the PBS-ITV series based ever-so-loosely on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, has been an acquired taste from...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 10, 2022

March is shaping up to be a big month for Janeites who like Austen-related TV and aren’t too picky about its relationship to anything...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 7, 2022

Austen-influenced crafts come in many forms. There are knitting patterns. There are board games. There are tote bags and jewelry and...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 3, 2022