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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

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 21, 2022

Something to talk about

Google the Omniscient doesn’t seem to know if it was Henry Ford, P.T. Barnum, or somebody else entirely who first declared, “I don’t care...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 18, 2022

In praise of repression

Early on in Netflix’s polarizing new adaptation of Persuasion, Anne Elliot leafs through a scrapbook in which she has preserved accounts...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 27, 2022

That trailer

During an overseas visit earlier this month, I was too swamped with family business to follow the news with my usual attention. This...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 28, 2021

On location

We adaptation-loving Janeites have grown used to disappointment. Remember the feature film of Sanditon, starring Charlotte Rampling as...

Deborah Yaffe

May 20, 2021

Clueless no more

Last month, we Janeites felt a tad confused -- dare I say clueless? -- when Netflix and MRC Entertainment announced plans to produce a...

Deborah Yaffe

May 3, 2021

Fifty Shades of Anne

Years ago, when the Harper Collins Austen Project was announcing which contemporary authors would undertake its modernizations of Austen...