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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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On fire
Nearly two years ago, word trickled out that a same-sex update of Pride and Prejudice, set on the gay mecca of New York’s Fire Island,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 15, 2021
The dating game
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
In the green room
It’s a funny time right now for us theater-loving Janeites: Some of our favorite things are still virtual, others are on their way back...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 17, 2021
Party 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 Yaffe
Jun 10, 2021
Mr. Wickham, live
The BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is known among Janeites by various shorthands: * There’s “the wet-shirt P&P,” for...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 19, 2021
Happy birthday indeed
For most people, this past year has been at best pretty bad and at worst utterly tragic. On the bright side, however, the challenge of...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 29, 2021
Jane Austen wrote here?
If you spend a lot of time online, it can sometimes seem that every house for sale in England has a tangential Jane Austen connection...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 18, 2021
Three 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 Yaffe
Feb 22, 2021
A Janeite goes home
A man whose love for Jane Austen helped sustain him during a brutal ten-month battle with COVID and its aftermath finally returned to his...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 25, 2021
Eternal verities
Despite the strangeness of this year, some eternal verities remain. Snowflakes. Evergreens. Misquoting Jane Austen. A few highlights of...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 17, 2020
Kaleidescopic Austen
Over at the CW, someone has had a startlingly original idea: How about – get this! – modern-day updates of Jane Austen’s novels? OMG!...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 16, 2020
Cat person
A cheerful story with a political angle—and a Jane Austen twist! On the eve of Election Day here in the stressed-out, locked-down,...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 2, 2020
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