Deborah YaffeJul 29, 2021Even more persuadableLast week, I reported on proliferating Persuasion adaptations – a straight-to-streaming update that aired last December, two period...
Deborah YaffeJul 22, 2021Persuasion everywherePersuasion is having quite a year. Last December, a charmless modern update called Modern Persuasion – the dull, on-the-nose title gave...
Deborah YaffeJun 28, 2021On locationWe adaptation-loving Janeites have grown used to disappointment. Remember the feature film of Sanditon, starring Charlotte Rampling as...
Deborah YaffeJun 10, 2021Party 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 YaffeMay 20, 2021Clueless no moreLast month, we Janeites felt a tad confused -- dare I say clueless? -- when Netflix and MRC Entertainment announced plans to produce a...
Deborah YaffeMay 3, 2021Fifty Shades of AnneYears ago, when the Harper Collins Austen Project was announcing which contemporary authors would undertake its modernizations of Austen...
Deborah YaffeMar 25, 2021Mars and VenusThese days, Jane Austen enthusiasts are often typecast as college girls swooning over Matthew Macfadyen, or middle-aged women dressing up...
Deborah YaffeFeb 22, 2021Three weeks, three books (or is it four?)Jane Austen sightings are like buses: Sometimes, you don’t get one for ages, and sometimes, they come in bunches. These last few weeks...
Deborah YaffeFeb 4, 2021Hear thisIf you want a dulcet-toned Brit to read aloud to you from the works of Jane Austen, your options are many. The audiobook giant Audible...