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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
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If you’ve ever wondered whether the shortening of our collective attention span spells doom for the appreciation of Jane Austen's...
Deborah Yaffe
May 26, 2022
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Persuasion, with soap
As Valentine’s Day dawns, all across the Netflix-speaking Janeite world, we are waiting impatiently for the new film adaptation of Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 14, 2022
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Jane all around
Jane Austen turns up in the most unexpected places, doesn’t she? Here’s where she’s been in the past week: --Jane Austen and true crime:...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 31, 2022
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On this day in 1801. . .
Seventy-first in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. Moving out of one house and into another is a stressful,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 3, 2022
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Failure to persuade
“You can never have too much Persuasion,” I opined three months ago, as each day seemed to bring a new announcement of a forthcoming...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 21, 2021
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Even more persuadable
Last week, I reported on proliferating Persuasion adaptations – a straight-to-streaming update that aired last December, two period...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 2021
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Persuasion everywhere
Persuasion is having quite a year. Last December, a charmless modern update called Modern Persuasion – the dull, on-the-nose title gave...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 22, 2021
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On location
We adaptation-loving Janeites have grown used to disappointment. Remember the feature film of Sanditon, starring Charlotte Rampling as...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 28, 2021
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Party like. . .
Five years ago, in a blog post headlined “Party like it’s 1995,” I heralded a forthcoming spate of filmed Jane Austen adaptations – a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 10, 2021
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Clueless no more
Last month, we Janeites felt a tad confused -- dare I say clueless? -- when Netflix and MRC Entertainment announced plans to produce a...
Deborah Yaffe
May 20, 2021
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Fifty Shades of Anne
Years ago, when the Harper Collins Austen Project was announcing which contemporary authors would undertake its modernizations of Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
May 3, 2021
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Mars and Venus
These days, Jane Austen enthusiasts are often typecast as college girls swooning over Matthew Macfadyen, or middle-aged women dressing up...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 25, 2021
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