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There’s an upside to everything, apparently – even a global pandemic that threatens to sicken and perhaps kill millions while tanking the...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 12, 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
- Feb 17, 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
- Jan 9, 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
- Nov 25, 2019
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 14, 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
- 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
- Oct 7, 2019
Yet more on-screen Austen
I recognize that not everyone craves another Jane Austen-themed screen drama. Some may have balked at the all! sex! all! the! time! hype...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 29, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part I
The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 20, 2019
Mistakes, misquotes, misunderstandings
Today on “Making Fun of the Internet,” a roundup of the latest Jane Austen-related stupid stuff that has crossed my cyber-transom...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 6, 2019
Keeping up with the Jameses
Some weeks, the Austen-related news tidbits that come my way are scattered and disparate, lacking any unifying theme. And then there’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 28, 2019
Promising news about Emma
The upcoming big-screen adaptation of Emma has acquired a complete cast list, and for those of us who delight in fine British character...
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