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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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Dissed by the Austen Project
Joanna Trollope’s modern-dress adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the first in a planned series of six Austen updates by popular...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 27, 2013
Austenland: Just plain bad
Shannon Hale’s Austenland is not a great work of literature: it’s a mildly entertaining beach read with a cute romantic denouement. The...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 8, 2013
Sanditon Summer: Jennifer Petkus
In 1920, reviewing an Austen great-niece's biography of her famous relative, the writer Katherine Mansfield put her finger on something...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 28, 2013
Sanditon Summer: Helen Marshall
Helen Marshall’s “Sanditon,” the subject of today’s Sanditon Summer blog post, is not Jane Austen fanfiction. It’s a darkly funny,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 24, 2013
Sanditon Summer: Anne Toledo
Critics disagree about Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. Is it a tired rehash of her previous work, indelibly...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 21, 2013
Sanditon Summer: Helen Baker
Like Elizabeth Bennet overhearing Darcy’s dismissive insult at the Meryton Assembly, I developed an early prejudice against Helen Baker,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 17, 2013
Sanditon Summer: Reginald Hill
I love Jane Austen updates, Austen spinoffs that translate the familiar stories and beloved characters to contemporary settings. I’ve...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 14, 2013
Sanditon Summer: Donald Measham
Donald Measham’s Jane Austen Out of the Blue, the Sanditon continuation I’ll be discussing today in my ongoing Sanditon Summer blog...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2013
Sanditon Summer: Juliette Shapiro
Writing is hard. The work is lonely, the pay low, the public recognition at best fleeting, at worst non-existent. Because I’ve been...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 7, 2013
Sanditon Summer: Julia Barrett
Jane Austen’s Charlotte, the Sanditon completion I’m reviewing today as part of my Sanditon Summer blog series, is not a labor of love...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 3, 2013
Sanditon Summer: Rebecca Baldwin
A Sanditon Quadrille, Rebecca Baldwin’s Regency romance, isn’t really a continuation of Jane Austen’s Sanditon; truth be told, it’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 30, 2013
Sanditon Summer: Marie Dobbs
The best-known and most widely admired completion of Jane Austen’s Sanditon -- and the subject of today's post in my Sanditon Summer blog...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26, 2013
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