Being Mr. Wickham, again
Over the past four years, the British actor Adrian Lukis has spent a lot of time being Mr. Wickham. In late 2019, Lukis – who, as...
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Deborah Yaffe
- May 11
Trouble at Lyme
Mr. Darcy, aka Colin Firth, is riding a white horse when he comes home to Pemberley, aka Lyme Park, in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation...
Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 27
Austen in the dreamscape
Australians may have a complicated relationship with Britain, their one-time mother country, but no such ambivalence seems to pervade...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 16
Back to the beach
It’s been a long road for fans of Sanditon, the PBS series based, very loosely, on the novel that Jane Austen left unfinished at her...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 6
Writing women
As a writer who is also a fan of period drama, I pay attention to the screenwriting credits on my favorite literary-minded TV...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 16
Speaking well enough to be unintelligible
A few weeks ago, the British press was suddenly awash in articles (for example, here, here and here) about the new! exciting! previously...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 9
The Cher Manifesto
When Karl Marx wrote about the decadence of capitalism, he may have been imagining something like our current moment, in which a slew of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 6
Hey, cupcake
Last month, noting the pending release of a Pride and Prejudice screen update entitled Townhouse Confidential, I reported, “My...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 23
Pride & Prejudice & Real Estate
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 16
Another Janeite goodbye
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 12
Alumni reunions
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 2
Better luck this time?
Nearly five years ago, a Canadian lawyer named Tara Rout floated the notion of buying Luckington Court, the UK mansion that played...
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