Sanditon Summer

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Deborah Yaffe

Aug 15, 2013

Sanditon Summer: Welcome to Sanditon

The Lizzie Bennet Diaries was always going to be a hard act to follow. Cleverly written and well-acted, LBD retold the story of Pride...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 29, 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 25, 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 22, 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 18, 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 15, 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 11, 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...

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Jul 8, 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...

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Jul 4, 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...

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Jul 1, 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 27, 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 24, 2013

Sanditon Summer: Alice Cobbett

Jane Austen fan-fiction writers -- including the authors of the Sanditon spinoffs I'm blogging about this summer -- can be divided into...