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Austen women

Jane Austen isn’t just for girls, of course, but the Austenesque tidbits that the internet has tossed my way lately happen to focus on...

Talking about "talking"

In the social world of Jane Austen’s Regency, young people navigated a complex set of unwritten rules for managing friendship and...

Forever Cher

For an actor, it must be frustrating to realize that you will be remembered almost solely for a role you played at the age of eighteen....

As if, again

“Seven years I suppose are enough to change every pore of one’s skin, & every feeling of one’s mind,” Jane Austen wrote to her sister,...

Reboot, booted

Back in late 2019, when corona was just a neighborhood in Queens, the news broke that Hollywood was considering a television reboot of...

New and/or improved

By now, we would all be happy to consign 2020 to the trash bin of history. Let’s reboot! Remake! Recycle and replace! Alas, another four...

On and off

For those of us who love our Jane Austen adaptations, the coronavirus quarantine has been the best of times and the worst of times. The...

Immortal, beloved

Twenty-five years ago this summer, we Janeites flocked to movie theaters to see a brand-new modernization of Emma, set among affluent...

Hands off!

Why do people keep trying to mess with Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s 1995 movie, which updated the story of Emma to high school in Beverly...

The sound of (Austen) music

Music plays intermittent cameo roles in Jane Austen’s novels: think of Mary Bennet delighting us long enough in Pride and Prejudice, or...

Kids in America

Over the weekend, I went to see Clueless: The Musical. It made me miss Clueless: The Movie. Which was probably not the intended effect....

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 --...