Jane Austen meets Texas debs
The year advances apace, and yet there still doesn’t seem to be a release date for the supposed-to-come-out-in-2017 film adaptation of...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Apr 10, 2017
Austen in toe shoes
Every time you think Jane Austen’s stories have been translated into every conceivable medium – not just the ubiquitous movies, but comic...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 27, 2017
Context is everything
Once or twice in the past, I have mentioned my aversion to lists of Jane Austen quotes – or mugs with Jane Austen quotes, or, indeed, any...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 20, 2017
Distinguishing marks
Back in my college days, when I was a pedantically obsessive copy editor on the student newspaper, a friend claimed to have overheard me...
Deborah Yaffe
- Feb 13, 2017
Dweeby Darcy
Edward IV, who reigned as king of England for most of the period from 1461-1483, was described by contemporaries as an unusually handsome...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jan 12, 2017
Jane Austen, citizen of the world (Part II)
These days, the quintessentially English Jane Austen is, as I recently found occasion to note, a citizen of the world. And she seems to...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 26, 2016
Big eyes, bigger emotions
By now, it’s hardly news that Jane Austen’s stories have inspired adaptations in every conceivable genre and medium: zombie mashup, radio...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 26, 2016
Augmented Janeite reality
Tumblr is a social media platform that I simply do not understand, at least not yet. Luckily, I have a teenage daughter. And she sends me...
Deborah Yaffe
- Sep 22, 2016
Janeite demigod turns 80
Screenwriter Andrew Davies, who turned 80 this past Tuesday, is a Janeite demigod, the man who brought us not only the beloved 1995...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jul 28, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Jane Juska
Let us stipulate that Mrs. Bennet draws the short straw. Her clever, ironic husband treats her with thinly disguised disrespect. Her...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 16, 2016
Crafting time
Today’s edition of Jane Austen Craft Projects I Wish I Had Time For features a charming cross-stitch kit based on one of C.E. Brock’s...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 9, 2016
Eligible: Skyline chili and marshmallow fluff
In the 1940 film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, played by the great comic actress Edna May Oliver, turns...
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