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Journalist and author
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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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
The Austen prescription
Jane Austen’s power to console during times of trauma is an established trope by now: cue mention of how British authorities prescribed...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 4, 2020
Listen up
Nothing beats hearing a soothing, familiar voice read an engrossing story aloud. I loved the read-aloud experience when I was a child...
Deborah Yaffe
May 21, 2020
On and off
For those of us who love our Jane Austen adaptations, the coronavirus quarantine has been the best of times and the worst of times. The...
Deborah Yaffe
May 7, 2020
From museum to house
Two years ago, Chawton House Library – a research center for the study of early English writing by women, located in an Elizabethan...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 20, 2020
Tuning in to P&P
Last week’s online premiere of a new musical version of Pride and Prejudice, streamed for free by Streaming Musicals, drew a more than...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 16, 2020
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