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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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Can't *huff* keep up *puff*
This business of Austen trend-spotting is getting to be exhausting. Barely four months ago, I noted that the two-decade-long craze for...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 12, 2018
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Liberties
Back in middle and high school, I took French. In college, I took Italian. I enjoyed them both – beautiful languages, fascinating...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 8, 2018
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Emma, Emma everywhere
Emma really does seem to be having a moment. Last week, I wrote about plans for both a new filmed adaptation of the novel and a remake of...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 5, 2018
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Never too much Jane
Sometimes it feels as if only die-hard Janeites are still thinking about Jane Austen. And other times – like these past few weeks --...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 31, 2018
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Janeite Christmas at Hallmark
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. So perhaps the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 28, 2018
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Emma, live and on film
Musical theater is an expensive art form, and fans on a budget – or those who live far from the major cities where original productions...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 3, 2018
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Still trending
Only two months ago, I announced that second-order Austen adaptations -- adaptations of adaptations of Austen novels -- were now...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 2, 2018
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Unpersuaded
Pride and Prejudice isn’t just Jane Austen’s most famous and popular novel. Of all her stories, it’s also the best suited to modern-dress...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 2018
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Austen karaoke
Recently – OK, it was two weeks ago – I found occasion to mention an old journalists’ joke: that three examples of a phenomenon...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 15, 2018
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Davies does Sanditon
For the Jane Austen world, it qualifies as blockbuster news: Revered screenwriter Andrew Davies, the man behind the iconic 1995 BBC...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 11, 2018
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Trend-spotting
We journalists like to joke that once you have three examples of something – avocado toast! Suburban sex-toy parties! -- you can write a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 1, 2018
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Another dog
Every now and again, along comes a Jane Austen adaptation, spinoff, or fanfic that, in its wishful thinking and reassuring punch-pulling,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 3, 2018
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