Coming attractions?
Surely the universe owes us a better year than the last. And for Janeites who enjoy screen adaptations of their favorite author, the...
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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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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 21, 2020
No rom, no com
The opening credits of Modern Persuasion, which began streaming Friday on a small screen near you, scroll through a litany of actors,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 14, 2020
Radical dish-drying, Austen style
How radical was Jane Austen? It's a topic of continuing debate: She’s been embraced as an icon of both traditional family values and...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 10, 2020
Our cousins' street
Many Janeites lack an intimate familiarity with the geography of class in Regency England; we – by which I mean I – can’t tell our Edward...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 4, 2020
Deck the halls
After the year we’ve had, we’re all going to deserve a holiday-season treat. And it looks like the Janeites among us will be getting one....
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 20, 2020
I scream, you scream. . .
We Janeites love our Jane Austen movies. Can’t get enough of ‘em! Want more! And more! Or so you’d conclude from recent news: * Plans for...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 9, 2020
Parched
I haven’t set foot in a movie theater in five months. (March 7. Multiplex up the road from here. The new adaptation of Emma, a pretty...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 10, 2019
Beach reading
It’s always encouraging when excellent contemporary writers turn out to have great taste in literature (i.e., taste that agrees with my...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 10, 2019
On this day in 1805. . .
Forty-third in an occasional series of excerpts from Jane Austen's letters. "It is a period, indeed!” Captain Wentworth exclaims to Anne...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 31, 2018
Nineteen
Nineteen is a number much on our collective minds today, as we prepare to usher in 2019, the last year of the second decade of the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 13, 2018
Desperately seeking romance in Jane Austen
Virginia Woolf famously wrote of Jane Austen that “of all great writers she is the most difficult to catch in the act of greatness.” Let...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 26, 2018
The best company
When you’re off to attend the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual conference, and the theme of that conference is Persuasion,...
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