Adaptations 17/25

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

Keeping up with the Jameses

Some weeks, the Austen-related news tidbits that come my way are scattered and disparate, lacking any unifying theme. And then there’s...

Deborah Yaffe

May 5, 2019

Atlanta, here we come!

For those of us who are impatient to see the latest Jane Austen-inspired TV movie – i.e., for Janeites whose boundless optimism remains...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 28, 2019

Speedy delivery

As regular blog readers know, I have found it difficult to say anything positive about the recent spate of Jane Austen-inspired TV...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 14, 2019

Promising news about Emma

The upcoming big-screen adaptation of Emma has acquired a complete cast list, and for those of us who delight in fine British character...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 27, 2019

Eternally Mr. Darcy

Pity poor Colin Firth. His IMDB page lists more than seventy-five film and TV credits in a career stretching back thirty-five years, and...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 17, 2019

Bewitched

Among Janeites, the 2005 film of Pride and Prejudice is . . . controversial. Purists, especially those old enough to have seen an...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 25, 2019

Sanditon's Sidney

Production of the new television adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is moving along even more...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 21, 2019

Sanditon inches closer to the small screen

Jane Austen wrote only seventy pages of Sanditon before her final illness left her unable to work. In the intervening two centuries, her...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 7, 2019

A tourist in Bath

Last Thursday, James McAvoy, the excellent Scottish actor who played Jane Austen’s crush Tom Lefroy in the 2007 film Becoming Jane, paid...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 10, 2019

Kids in America

Over the weekend, I went to see Clueless: The Musical. It made me miss Clueless: The Movie. Which was probably not the intended effect....

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 7, 2019

P&P: Multicultural

Jane Austen’s mature work features only one character of color: the teenaged West Indian heiress Miss Lambe, “half mulatto, chilly and...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 10, 2018

Mistletoe, yes; pride and prejudice, no

Last summer, when I learned that the Hallmark Channel would celebrate Christmas by broadcasting a movie based on a Jane Austen fanfic...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 26, 2018