Adaptations 23/25

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

Online Austen and our Internet selves

It’s been more than two years since we fans bid a sad farewell to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the delightful web series that recast Pride...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 1, 2015

Calling all Austen nerds

Given the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 5, 2015

A date with the zombies

The movie of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has a release date! And it is. . . (drum roll, please). . . February 19, 2016! So stop me...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 1, 2015

Whit tries Jane

Best Jane Austen news of the week (at least potentially): Shooting is about to start on director Whit Stillman’s movie of Lady Susan,...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 5, 2015

Undead at last

The time for silver-bullet and stake-through-the-heart jokes is officially over. The movie version of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies has not...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 8, 2015

Death comes to PBS

Just because I didn't much like Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James' 2011 murder-mystery sequel to Pride and Prejudice -- and, like so...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 22, 2014

Must stop can't stop

I really should stop. Don’t torture myself, right? Just surrender my Jane Austen Critical Faculties license, turn in my Janeite Purist...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 19, 2014

Games Janeites play

It hasn’t quite been Ten Days that Rocked the Jane Austen World, but this past week or so has brought us several memorable Janeite teapot...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 24, 2014

Another brick in the wall

Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 10, 2014

Pet Austen Peeve #83: Movie Quotes Aren't Book Quotes

I suppose I should just stop banging my head against the same old brick wall. But really: if you’re going to go to the trouble of...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 24, 2014

Manga Lizzy

The Japanese seem to be fond of Jane Austen – there is a Jane Austen Society of Japan, a Japanese scholar spoke at one of the Jane Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 13, 2014

Another Jane Austen movie?

Today's quiz question: Which Jane Austen novel does this plot summary suggest? “Ella is touring Italy with her boyfriend, unaware that...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 27, 2014