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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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Jane Austen: not a grammar nerd
The UK recently instituted a grammar and punctuation test for students in Year Six – kids aged ten or eleven, roughly equivalent to...
Deborah Yaffe
May 15, 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
Eligible: Skyline chili and marshmallow fluff
In the 1940 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, played by the great comic actress Edna May Oliver, turns...
Deborah Yaffe
May 8, 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
Not quite Antiques Roadshow
The story sounds irresistible: A treasured Jane Austen first edition, inscribed more than a century earlier to an unknown young woman,...
Deborah Yaffe
May 1, 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
On this day in 1811. . .
Twelfth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen’s letters. In the spring of 1811, Jane Austen stood on the cusp of great...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 24, 2016
Two hundred candles for Charlotte
Two hundred years ago today, one of the world’s greatest novelists was born in a small village in rural England. I refer, of course, to...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 20, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: John Halperin
Work on Jane Austen, whether biography or literary criticism, arrays itself along a spectrum whose poles might be labeled Jolly Jane and...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 17, 2016
Jane Austen Day in Philly
The Eastern Pennsylvania Region of the Jane Austen Society of North America is, as my inbox can attest, a busy and ambitious group. Their...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 13, 2016
Talking Jane Austen fanfiction
My next book-related event is scheduled for this Wednesday, April 13, in Princeton, NJ: I’ll be speaking at our lovely independent...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 10, 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
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