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The Emma Trap

What is the nature of inspiration? How elastic is its definition? How large a distance can stretch between inspiration and inspiree...

Hold the hot chocolate

I’m afraid I have some very bad news. The pandemic has taken so much from us, and now it seems to have taken something more. Long ago, in...

Have another one

Just when you thought it was safe to put some cookies in the oven, toss a few snowballs, and top your hot chocolate with a dollop of...

Man and snowmen

My husband seems befuddled, even a tad shell-shocked. His maiden viewing of a Jane Austen-themed Hallmark Christmas movie – Sense,...

Happy Christmas to all!

Disaster averted! Collision avoided! Christmas catastrophe curtailed! Last month, as blog readers will recall, it appeared that the...

Christmas mystery solved

Last month, as blog readers will recall, we jointly pondered a Jane Austen Christmas mystery: why a made-for-TV movie named Sense,...

A Jane Austen Christmas mystery

See that headline? The one right above this blog post? I’m kind of proud of it. Doesn’t it totally sound like it could be the title of a...

Mistletoe, yes; pride and prejudice, no

Last summer, when I learned that the Hallmark Channel would celebrate Christmas by broadcasting a movie based on a Jane Austen fanfic...

Janeite Christmas at Hallmark

They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. So perhaps the...

Another dog

Every now and again, along comes a Jane Austen adaptation, spinoff, or fanfic that, in its wishful thinking and reassuring punch-pulling,...

Off the leash again

The definitive screen adaptation of Mansfield Park has yet to be made. We’re still waiting for the first full-length movie of Sanditon,...

Re-leash Mr. Darcy, please

The life of a Jane Austen video completist is not easy. Yes, it’s true that in the service of her mission – to see and, ideally, to own...