Adaptations 19/25

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

Time for a mental health day

It’s been quite a while since I last discussed the unfortunate phenomenon of faux-Jane Austen quotes, usually originating in Jane Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

May 20, 2018

Austenland for real?

Over the years, I’ve swooned about Austen-linked real estate coming up for sale or rent. Perhaps I have said things like, “If money were...

Deborah Yaffe

May 16, 2018

Emma, the (latest) musical

Good news for those of us who can never get enough Jane Austen adaptations: Apparently, theater professionals in London and New York are...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 15, 2018

The Watsons on stage

The Watsons -- the novel Jane Austen began, probably in 1804, but never finished -- is a fascinating fragment. It’s bleak and wintry,...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 14, 2018

Off the leash again

The definitive screen adaptation of Mansfield Park has yet to be made. We’re still waiting for the first full-length movie of Sanditon,...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 11, 2018

P&P on ice

The Winter Olympics are over, but not without a fleeting Jane Austen moment. Last week, as my daughter and I were sitting glued to the...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 26, 2018

Here we go again. . .

Last month, the Washington Post drew well-earned Janeite derision when it published an article exploring the astonishing news that Jane...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 15, 2018

P&P game-playing

Austen adaptations, whether on stage, screen or fanfic page, all too often fall victim to an excess of earnestness – the bonnets, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 11, 2017

The factory at work

The Jane Austen adaptation factory never seems to stop churning out fresh material. By now, the proliferating combinations and...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 20, 2017

Remaking an icon

Unless you’ve spent the past week entirely absorbed in stocking your fallout shelter with canned goods, you’ve probably heard that a...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 13, 2017

Puppies and prejudice

During World War I, historians tell us, Jane Austen’s novels were sometimes prescribed to traumatized British soldiers as a remedy for...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 9, 2017

Taxi!

I marked the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death last week in rather prosaic fashion: giving my house an all-too-infrequent thorough...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 26, 2017