Pride & Prejudice & Real Estate
So many updated versions of Jane Austen’s novels have come my way over the past couple of decades that when I hear of a new one these...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 31, 2020
Goodbye at last, 2020
A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 21, 2020
No rom, no com
The opening credits of Modern Persuasion, which began streaming Friday on a small screen near you, scroll through a litany of actors,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 5, 2020
Deck the halls
After the year we’ve had, we’re all going to deserve a holiday-season treat. And it looks like the Janeites among us will be getting one....
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 22, 2020
The Jane Austen Guide to Quarantine
For many of us, coronavirus quarantine has proved to be the perfect moment to reread Jane Austen. (Although, really, is there ever a bad...
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
- Jul 30, 2018
Unpersuaded
Pride and Prejudice isn’t just Jane Austen’s most famous and popular novel. Of all her stories, it’s also the best suited to modern-dress...
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