Pride & Prejudice & Real Estate
So many updated versions of Jane Austen’s novels have come my way over the past couple of decades that when I hear of a new one these...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 16
Another Janeite goodbye
The game of adapting Jane Austen’s novels for the screen has drawn some gifted and illustrious players. In 1940, the renowned novelist...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 12
Alumni reunions
Over the holidays, my family settled in for a screening of that sublime romcom Notting Hill. When the movie ended (“I’m just a girl,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 2
Better luck this time?
Nearly five years ago, a Canadian lawyer named Tara Rout floated the notion of buying Luckington Court, the UK mansion that played...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 26, 2022
Unintimidated
Just in case all the usual reasons to admire Ukrainians -- courage, grit, unshakeable commitment to democracy – aren’t enough for you,...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 15, 2022
High-camp Jane Austen
After a year that brought not one but two same-sex updates of Pride and Prejudice, we probably don’t need further proof that the queering...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 12, 2022
Boy meets pig
By now, we know that the Pride and Prejudice formula—opposites attract, enemies to lovers, snobby-meets-snarky—accommodates many...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 28, 2022
Regency reality
For some Janeites, fandom entails an intense engagement with the material details of Austen’s world. These Janeites are the people who...
Deborah Yaffe
- Nov 17, 2022
Not so timeless
As regular blog readers know, among my favorite pastimes is mocking the internet for its habit of attributing quotations from screen...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 31, 2022
Scary monsters
Happy Halloween, Janeites! Although Austen wrote no scenes of trick-or-treating, pumpkin-carving, or gorging on candy corn, she certainly...
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