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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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Emma, Emma everywhere
Emma really does seem to be having a moment. Last week, I wrote about plans for both a new filmed adaptation of the novel and a remake of...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 5, 2018
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 --...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 31, 2018
Emma, live and on film
Musical theater is an expensive art form, and fans on a budget – or those who live far from the major cities where original productions...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 3, 2018
Emma, the (latest) musical
Good news for those of us who can never get enough Jane Austen adaptations: Apparently, theater professionals in London and New York are...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 15, 2018
On this day in 1815. . .
Twenty-ninth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. It’s an occupational hazard of the writing life that people...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 11, 2017
Wanted: Lettuce
The rabbit guy, it turns out, loved Jane Austen. Last week, the Guardian reported that the large and valuable library of the late Richard...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 27, 2017
Pie and prejudice
Thanksgiving Day is upon us once again, and once again it’s time to search the works of Jane Austen – who, as an Englishwoman who never...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 23, 2017
On this day in 1814. . .
Twenty-eighth in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Only six of Jane Austen’s letters to her oldest niece,...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 20, 2017
Men who won't take no for an answer
Jane Austen anticipates current events in Hollywood: Northanger Abbey, ch. 15: “ ‘Did you ever hear the old song ‘Going to One Wedding...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 15, 2017
Austen comic books 2.0
Given the ubiquity of comic books based on Jane Austen’s novels, I suppose it’s not surprising that we’ve now moved on to Version 2.0:...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 19, 2017
JASNA, Emma, and D.C.
By the time you read this, I’ll be on my way to Washington, D.C., to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s thirty-eighth...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 19, 2016
Women's work, international edition
When I was a girl – yes, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth – I was a dab hand at needlepoint. I stitched plastic canvas into keepsake...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 18, 2016
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