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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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The factory at work
The Jane Austen adaptation factory never seems to stop churning out fresh material. By now, the proliferating combinations and...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 21, 2017
Portable Pemberley
We all have our own idea of Pemberley, the quintessential Jane Austen estate. On film, it’s been played by gorgeous Lyme Park, in...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 11, 2017
Remaking an icon
Unless you’ve spent the past week entirely absorbed in stocking your fallout shelter with canned goods, you’ve probably heard that a...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 14, 2017
Puppies and prejudice
During World War I, historians tell us, Jane Austen’s novels were sometimes prescribed to traumatized British soldiers as a remedy for...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 10, 2017
Brokeback Pemberley
In my experience, non-Janeites are blissfully unaware of the vast universe of Austen fanfic in all its magnificent, explicit, pansexual...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 8, 2017
Longbourn for sale
No one reads Pride and Prejudice and dreams of living at Longbourn. The Bennet family estate, much as Mr. Collins may praise it, is so...
Deborah Yaffe
May 25, 2017
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...
Deborah Yaffe
May 4, 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
Apr 10, 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 27, 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 20, 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
Feb 13, 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
Jan 12, 2017
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