The big event
We’re just days away from one of the year’s big Janeite events: Friday’s U.S. opening of the new feature film adaptation of Emma, a week...
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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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Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 25, 2019
Sneak previews
The new year is shaping up as a happy one for Janeites, at least American ones, since it will usher in two new Austen adaptations – the...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 7, 2019
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...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 14, 2019
Second bananas
We Janeites may love Austen’s heroes and heroines, but it’s her secondary characters who make us laugh out loud. Fanny Dashwood’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 30, 2019
Keeping up with the Janeites
I don’t speak Kardashian. I have trouble distinguishing among the K-named females of the clan, disentangling the one who married Kanye...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 16, 2019
Pictures at an exhibition
Is Michelle Obama a Janeite? As far as I’m aware, no documentation exists to settle the question either way. But circumstantial evidence...
Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 1, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part II
As I have pointed out rather often, most recently earlier this week, the Internet is filled with quotes from filmed adaptations of Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 29, 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 prizes...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 6, 2019
Keeping up with the Jameses
Some weeks, the Austen-related news tidbits that come my way are scattered and disparate, lacking any unifying theme. And then there’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 28, 2019
Promising news about Emma
The upcoming big-screen adaptation of Emma has acquired a complete cast list, and for those of us who delight in fine British character...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 14, 2019
The dating game
Valentine’s Day, the celebration of lovers, dates back to the Middle Ages. Yet Jane Austen – often described as the mother of the romance...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 14, 2019
Penguin of destiny
Literary critics turn up in the most unexpected places. Last November, the Maryland Zoo, in Baltimore, asked the public whether this...
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