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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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Pictures at an exhibition
Is Michelle Obama a Janeite? As far as I’m aware, no documentation exists to settle the question either way. But circumstantial evidence...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 16, 2019
Popping the question
According to my parents, one of the most important promises they made to each other upon their marriage was this one: no surprise...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 8, 2019
Water, water everywhere
It’s been a wet week for Janeites. Last Monday, we were treated to the first trailer for Sanditon, the forthcoming ITV-PBS adaptation of...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 5, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part II
As I have pointed out rather often, most recently earlier this week, the Internet is filled with quotes from filmed adaptations of Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 1, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part I
The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 2019
Oh, those clothes. .
The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 8, 2019
Influences
“Can a book change the course of your life?” asks the cover headline on the latest issue of my college alumni magazine. Inside, seventeen...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 10, 2019
Weird Austen
Sometimes, the Jane Austen mentions you find on the internet are seriously stupid. Other times, they’re just seriously weird. This month,...
Deborah Yaffe
May 30, 2019
Eye candy
To a reader, books are an essential feature of any home. A concept taken rather literally by Dutch artists Jan Is De Man and Deef Feed,...
Deborah Yaffe
May 23, 2019
Mistakes, misquotes, misunderstandings
Today on “Making Fun of the Internet,” a roundup of the latest Jane Austen-related stupid stuff that has crossed my cyber-transom...
Deborah Yaffe
May 20, 2019
CliffsNotes for kiddies
I am all in favor of introducing young people to great literature, even great literature they are probably too young to fully appreciate....
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 1, 2019
Eternally Mr. Darcy
Pity poor Colin Firth. His IMDB page lists more than seventy-five film and TV credits in a career stretching back thirty-five years, and...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 18, 2019
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