Pride and Prejudice | DeborahYaffe.com 12/23

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

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

Taking Pride

The past eighteen months have brought us a couple of made-for-the-small-screen Jane Austen spinoffs: the Lifetime movie Pride and...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 19, 2020

Yum

Twenty-five years ago today, the BBC’s beloved adaptation of Pride and Prejudice began airing on UK TV. By the time the show made its way...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 24, 2020

Zooming Mr. Darcy

Dispiriting as the last six months have been, Janeites have encountered some notable silver linings in the gloomy cloud cover. We’ve been...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 3, 2020

New and/or improved

By now, we would all be happy to consign 2020 to the trash bin of history. Let’s reboot! Remake! Recycle and replace! Alas, another four...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 27, 2020

A Janeite recovers

Earlier this summer, it looked like COVID would take the life of a seventy-three-year-old British lawyer named Geoff Woolf. During his...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 17, 2020

Mr. Darcy, harasser?

Jane Austen has been used and abused in so many different ways by now, pressed into service to sell everything from perfume to romance...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 6, 2020

Being Bennet(t)

When I read fanfiction that updates Jane Austen’s stories to contemporary settings, I often find myself exasperated by the names....

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 8, 2020