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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

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