Adaptations 21/25

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

Lining up for tickets

Since its initial release two weeks ago, Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Austen’s Lady Susan, has been...

Deborah Yaffe

May 22, 2016

Finishing the already finished

Excited as I am to see Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Lady Susan, I’ve been more than a little skeptical of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 11, 2016

Sanditon: Adapting Austen and Dobbs

Regular blog readers know that I’m squeeing with excitement over the upcoming film adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...

Deborah Yaffe

May 4, 2016

Austen stories on stage

Listening to a really good actor read aloud from a really good book is one of life’s great pleasures, not to mention my go-to strategy...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 27, 2016

Sanditon on screen

More casting news for what seems to be a for-real, actually-going-to-happen film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sanditon: Two young,...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 6, 2016

The end of a dry spell?

We fans of Jane Austen movie adaptations have had kind of a dry spell for the last few years. We’ve watched poor Sally Hawkins gallop...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 27, 2016

Lip gloss meets hamentashen

The holiday of Purim, which begins on Wednesday night, is the Jewish version of Mardi Gras: to commemorate the Biblical tale of how Queen...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 20, 2016

Getting it wrong, again

It’s time again for one of my favorite pastimes: Making Fun of the Internet – Jane Austen Edition. Today’s episode includes two entries: ...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 7, 2016

The Austen Catch-Up Project: As If!

I love Clueless. Doesn’t everyone? Last summer marked the twentieth anniversary of the film’s release, and the milestone inspired a slew...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 29, 2016

Wedding season

Just in case yesterday’s festivities didn’t give you enough of that Valentine’s Day spirit, Biltmore House, the palatial Asheville, N.C.,...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 15, 2016

Party like it's 1995

You remember 1995, right? The beginning of that halcyon eighteen-month stretch during which six Jane Austen film adaptations, ranging in...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 11, 2016

The Austen Catch-Up Project: Austentatious

In 1913, Sybil G. Brinton, the thirty-eight-year-old daughter of a wealthy carpet manufacturer from Worcestershire, England, published...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 28, 2016