Pride and Prejudice: An Experiment in Romance

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

High stakes, low stakes

In Jane Austen’s novels, the stakes of the courtship game could hardly be higher: Her heroines face irrevocable decisions that will...

Deborah Yaffe

May 30, 2022

The sting of rejection is an emotion whose nuances Jane Austen understood well – whether the agony of the jilted Marianne Dashwood (“Good...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 24, 2022

When NBC announced last month that it had changed the name of its new Regency-themed dating show from Pride and Prejudice: An Experiment...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 7, 2022

Finally, NBC has released a trailer for The Courtship, the upcoming reality-TV show featuring Austen-era costumes and dating rituals, and...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 21, 2022

March is shaping up to be a big month for Janeites who like Austen-related TV and aren’t too picky about its relationship to anything...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 7, 2022

Some weeks, it’s not clear what tidbit of gossip or news deserves mention as the biggest story in Jane Austen fandom. Other weeks, a...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 12, 2021