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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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A Jane Austen Christmas mystery
See that headline? The one right above this blog post? I’m kind of proud of it. Doesn’t it totally sound like it could be the title of a...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 22, 2019
By the seaside
A few weeks ago, as ITV began airing a much-hyped miniseries based on Sanditon, the seaside novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 18, 2019
Hunting for Easter eggs
Two episodes of the much-hyped TV adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, have aired in Britain over...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 4, 2019
Seaside publicity
For the past week or so, barely a day has passed without a story in the British press about the forthcoming eight-part television...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 21, 2019
Companions
Thirteen years ago, when PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre aired a new adaptation of Jane Eyre, the network offered viewers a chance to buy...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 14, 2019
Water, water everywhere
It’s been a wet week for Janeites. Last Monday, we were treated to the first trailer for Sanditon, the forthcoming ITV-PBS adaptation of...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 4, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part I
The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 28, 2019
Oh, those clothes. .
The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 7, 2019
Fragments of news, news about fragments
The Janeite word of the moment, it would appear, is “fragment.” * Last week, Jane Austen’s House Museum launched an urgent appeal for...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26, 2019
Christmas at Pemberley
The family-friendly Christmas show is a staple of local arts companies. Every December, the main stage in the regional theater near me is...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 5, 2019
Starring Mrs. Bennet
By now, contemporary updates of Pride and Prejudice are legion. On the page, we’ve had P&Ps set in the worlds of lawyers, rock stars,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 2, 2019
Mistakes, misquotes, misunderstandings
Today on “Making Fun of the Internet,” a roundup of the latest Jane Austen-related stupid stuff that has crossed my cyber-transom...
Deborah Yaffe
May 19, 2019
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