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Journalist and author
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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Then and now
The new Netflix adaptation of Pride and Prejudice seems to be coming along nicely: Press outlets in the UK have breathlessly reported...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 22
Choose wisely
“Name your favorite Jane Austen character”--along with its offshoots (favorite hero, favorite bad boy, Which Jane Austen Heroine Are...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 3
Clearing the backlog
It’s been a grand total of four weeks since I last reported on Jane Austen-related misinformation/foolishness on the internet. And...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 24
Walk the line
It’s not every day that Jane Austen gets name-checked in a newspaper article that also mentions Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and the...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 30, 2023
Sanditon, the convention
In the past three years, Sanditon, the TV series based on Jane Austen’s last unfinished novel, has roller-coastered through a dizzying...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 24, 2021
Sanditon farewell?
Jane Austen experienced her share of literary rejection. One publisher declined even to look at the manuscript that eventually became...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 16, 2019
Water, water everywhere
It’s been a wet week for Janeites. Last Monday, we were treated to the first trailer for Sanditon, the forthcoming ITV-PBS adaptation of...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 5, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part I
The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 2019
Fragments of news, news about fragments
The Janeite word of the moment, it would appear, is “fragment.” * Last week, Jane Austen’s House Museum launched an urgent appeal for...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 27, 2019
Sanditon's Sidney
Production of the new television adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is moving along even more...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 21, 2019
Sanditon inches closer to the small screen
Jane Austen wrote only seventy pages of Sanditon before her final illness left her unable to work. In the intervening two centuries, her...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 7, 2019
International (mis)understanding
With their film adaptations and their fanfics and their Austen societies, residents of the Indian subcontinent seem to love Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 2, 2018
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