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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

A date with the zombies

The movie of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has a release date! And it is. . . (drum roll, please). . . February 19, 2016! So stop me...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 1, 2015

Whit tries Jane

Best Jane Austen news of the week (at least potentially): Shooting is about to start on director Whit Stillman’s movie of Lady Susan,...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 5, 2015

Undead at last

The time for silver-bullet and stake-through-the-heart jokes is officially over. The movie version of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies has not...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 8, 2015

Games Janeites play

It hasn’t quite been Ten Days that Rocked the Jane Austen World, but this past week or so has brought us several memorable Janeite teapot...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 24, 2014

Another Jane Austen movie?

Today's quiz question: Which Jane Austen novel does this plot summary suggest? “Ella is touring Italy with her boyfriend, unaware that...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 27, 2014

Belle arrives

I’m looking forward to seeing Belle, the new movie about the real-life, mixed-race great-niece of Lord Mansfield, the eighteenth-century...

Deborah Yaffe

May 4, 2014

Janeites and Disney fans

Jane Austen and Disney: it’s a nightmarish pairing. An adorably anthropomorphic Pug steals fabric from Mrs. Norris’ poor box to trim...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 9, 2014

Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen books

Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 19, 2013

Austenland: Just plain bad

Shannon Hale’s Austenland is not a great work of literature: it’s a mildly entertaining beach read with a cute romantic denouement. The...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 8, 2013

Waiting for Austenland

Austenland, the new movie based on Shannon Hale's novel about a Colin Firth-obsessed woman vacationing at a Regency theme park, won't...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 4, 2013

Sharpening my sword

The Dallas Morning News' film critic, Chris Vognar, talked with me for a column he's just published on Austen fervor and the new movie of...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 28, 2013

Can't anyone kill this beast?

Janeite news of the week is the apparent resurrection – cue undead jokes here – of the filmed version of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies,...

Deborah Yaffe

May 8, 2013