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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

Taking Pride

The past eighteen months have brought us a couple of made-for-the-small-screen Jane Austen spinoffs: the Lifetime movie Pride and...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 18, 2020

Festival weekend

Just a reminder that this weekend will be an exciting one for Janeites: the online version of the popular Jane Austen Festival–held, in...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 9, 2020

Online Austen everywhere

A month or two ago, there was no joy in Austenland, as, one by one, treasured Jane Austen events fell victim to coronavirus cancelation....

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 24, 2020

Companions

Thirteen years ago, when PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre aired a new adaptation of Jane Eyre, the network offered viewers a chance to buy...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 14, 2019

Subcontinental Austen

South Asians never seem to tire of Jane Austen. We’ve had an Indian TV show based on Sense and Sensibility. We’ve screened cinematic...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 17, 2019

Jane Austen Purim

Today is Purim, the Jewish version of Mardi Gras, on which we eat a big meal, dress in silly costumes, read the Biblical book of Esther,...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 20, 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

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

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

No JAFF for this famous Janeite

For generations of teenagers, including me, reading the young-adult novels of S.E. Hinton – classics like The Outsiders and That Was...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 21, 2018

Jane Austen in the age of the selfie

Long, long ago – wait, was it only 2009? – a clever young man named Seth Grahame-Smith interpolated zombie references into the text of...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 12, 2018