Coming attraction
Apparently, I am not the only person who never tires of romcoms in which a Jane Austen fan’s romantic life starts to mirror Austen’s...
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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
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 29
Sounds familiar
By now, we’ve had so many movies in which a youngish, female Jane Austen fan discovers that her modern-day romantic life is somehow mixed...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19
Inferiority complex
In 2007, Colin Firth told the London Sunday Times that he was completely unsuited to his most famous role , which he had played twelve...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 5
High flying
The reviews are in for the latest Jane Austen-themed costume drama, and they’re raves: “Completely captivated.” “Work of genius.”...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 13
The Shirt, unveiled
Sometimes launching a museum exhibition is a complicated process, as catalogs are researched, international loan agreements negotiated,...
Deborah Yaffe
May 16
Mad about the Regency
The third season of Bridgerton, Netflix’s smash-hit Regency romance series, launches today. To mark the occasion, a professor at...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 8
Pemberley-at-sea
Although Jane Austen never set sail, her ties to seafaring, forged through the experiences of her two sailor brothers, were close and...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 28
Lady Susan on tour
With their witty dialogue and streamlined storytelling, Jane Austen’s novels have many of the qualities of the best plays. No wonder they...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 18
Welcome, Janeites!
Apparently, not everyone in the UK opposes turning their little corner of Britain into Janeite Disneyland. Earlier this month, as...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 29
Stocking stuffer
What do you get for the Janeite who has everything? You’d think it would be easy to buy for people whose fandom has spawned an ocean of...
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