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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

Second banana no more

Ella Bruccoleri is a hard-working young British actress whose roles so far have been distinctly second banana. I’ve seen her as a...

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Ball of the year?

Hard as we Americans try, there are some things we just can’t do as well as the British. Last month, as blog readers will recall ,...

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5 days ago

P&P, Vanity Fair edition

When Pride and Prejudice was published in early 1813, Jane Austen had a few regrets. “It wants shade,” she wrote to her sister,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 9

Dancing as if it's 2005

Twenty years, to quote Captain Wentworth, is “a period, indeed”—more than enough time “to change every pore of one’s skin, & every...

Deborah Yaffe

May 19

Here we go again

The first still-extant screen adaptation of Pride and Prejudice , the MGM movie starring Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier as Elizabeth...

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Apr 24

In for a penny. . .

Penny Ashton is a New Zealand actor and comedian who has created two Jane Austen-inspired shows: the one-woman Promise & Promiscuity , ...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 17

Picking favorites

When I’m asked which Jane Austen novel is my favorite—and if you write a book about Jane Austen fandom, you will be asked this question...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 7

Choose wisely

“Name your favorite Jane Austen character”--along with its offshoots (favorite hero, favorite bad boy, Which Jane Austen Heroine Are...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 3

Reading Jane Austen in a vacuum

We Janeites never tire of pointing out all the qualities that make Austen special. We’re not wrong to do so--few writers are as good as...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 24

Putting it on

Seldom do I appreciate zippers more than when I’ve just watched actors in Regency costume recreate the rituals of Jane Austen-era...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 13

P&P on a budget

These days, it’s hard not to despair at the state of the world. But all is not lost: You can go online and find a guy lip-syncing his way...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 3

Clearing the backlog

It’s been a grand total of four weeks since I last reported on Jane Austen-related misinformation/foolishness on the internet. And...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 24