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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

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...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 29, 2018

Austen karaoke

Recently – OK, it was two weeks ago – I found occasion to mention an old journalists’ joke: that three examples of a phenomenon...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 15, 2018

Davies does Sanditon

For the Jane Austen world, it qualifies as blockbuster news: Revered screenwriter Andrew Davies, the man behind the iconic 1995 BBC...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 11, 2018

Trend-spotting

We journalists like to joke that once you have three examples of something – avocado toast! Suburban sex-toy parties! -- you can write a...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 1, 2018

The factory at work

The Jane Austen adaptation factory never seems to stop churning out fresh material. By now, the proliferating combinations and...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 20, 2017

Brokeback Pemberley

In my experience, non-Janeites are blissfully unaware of the vast universe of Austen fanfic in all its magnificent, explicit, pansexual...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 7, 2017

Jane Austen meets Texas debs

The year advances apace, and yet there still doesn’t seem to be a release date for the supposed-to-come-out-in-2017 film adaptation of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 3, 2017

Dweeby Darcy

Edward IV, who reigned as king of England for most of the period from 1461-1483, was described by contemporaries as an unusually handsome...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 13, 2017

Who you callin' unpublished?

So I’ve finally seen Whit Stillman’s Love and Friendship, the much-heralded film adaptation of Lady Susan. (I enjoyed it, if perhaps not...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 1, 2016

Lining up for tickets

Since its initial release two weeks ago, Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Austen’s Lady Susan, has been...

Deborah Yaffe

May 22, 2016

Finishing the already finished

Excited as I am to see Love and Friendship, Whit Stillman’s new film adaptation of Lady Susan, I’ve been more than a little skeptical of...

Deborah Yaffe

May 11, 2016

Sanditon: Adapting Austen and Dobbs

Regular blog readers know that I’m squeeing with excitement over the upcoming film adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...

Deborah Yaffe

May 4, 2016