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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

I scream, you scream. . .

We Janeites love our Jane Austen movies. Can’t get enough of ‘em! Want more! And more! Or so you’d conclude from recent news: * Plans for...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 20, 2020

New and/or improved

By now, we would all be happy to consign 2020 to the trash bin of history. Let’s reboot! Remake! Recycle and replace! Alas, another four...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 26, 2020

Parched

I haven’t set foot in a movie theater in five months. (March 7. Multiplex up the road from here. The new adaptation of Emma, a pretty...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 9, 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

Jun 21, 2020

Color-coding

Better late than never: Although it appeared more than a month ago, I’ve only just stumbled across a cogent and fascinating analysis of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 10, 2020

On and off

For those of us who love our Jane Austen adaptations, the coronavirus quarantine has been the best of times and the worst of times. The...

Deborah Yaffe

May 6, 2020

Silver linings

There’s an upside to everything, apparently – even a global pandemic that threatens to sicken and perhaps kill millions while tanking the...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 18, 2020

Immortal, beloved

Twenty-five years ago this summer, we Janeites flocked to movie theaters to see a brand-new modernization of Emma, set among affluent...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 11, 2020

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...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 17, 2020

Meg, Jo, Elinor, Marianne

Like all American girls, I loved Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, and when I shared it with my daughter many years after my first...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 9, 2020

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 25, 2019

Hands off!

Why do people keep trying to mess with Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s 1995 movie, which updated the story of Emma to high school in Beverly...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 14, 2019