January - 2023

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

Tom Lefroy, commitment-phobe?

Consider the term “fuckboy”: --“A womanizer; a young man who sleeps with women without any intention of having a relationship with them ....

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 30, 2023

The characters that Teri Roberts and Rachel Walton portrayed in the faux-Regency world of the Austen-themed online role-playing game...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 26, 2023

So many updated versions of Jane Austen’s novels have come my way over the past couple of decades that when I hear of a new one these...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 23, 2023

The Jane Austen Summer Program, whose four-day symposium in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, combines academic study of Austen with...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 19, 2023

The game of adapting Jane Austen’s novels for the screen has drawn some gifted and illustrious players. In 1940, the renowned novelist...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 16, 2023

Over the holidays, my family settled in for a screening of that sublime romcom Notting Hill. When the movie ended (“I’m just a girl,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 12, 2023

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 Yaffe

Jan 9, 2023

Edith Lank, who died on New Year’s Day at the age of ninety-six, was a Janeite’s Janeite. She read and reread Austen’s novels; began...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 5, 2023

Nearly five years ago, a Canadian lawyer named Tara Rout floated the notion of buying Luckington Court, the UK mansion that played...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 2, 2023