Pride and Prejudice | DeborahYaffe.com 7/24

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

P&P down on the farm

Earlier this year, the off-Broadway 59E59 Theaters hosted a one-man show about the afterlife of Pride and Prejudice’s villainous Mr....

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Jul 6, 2023

Represent

Representation is a hot topic in literary circles these days, as publishers reckon (late, slowly, and imperfectly) with their long...

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Jul 3, 2023

Using up the leftovers

Before leaving on vacation, I always try to clean out my refrigerator—no point in coming home to sour milk and moldy vegetables. Since I...

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Jun 19, 2023

Death of an unabashed Janeite

Martin Amis’ death last month at the age of seventy-three didn’t hit me as hard as it did the legions of bookish lads who fell for his...

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Jun 1, 2023

How P&P came to be

It’s a great time for programming at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen wrote or revised all six of her...

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May 25, 2023

Listening pleasure

It’s been a sadly long time since I strolled through the garden at Jane Austen’s House, the cottage in Chawton, Hampshire, where Austen...

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May 22, 2023

Being Mr. Wickham, again

Over the past four years, the British actor Adrian Lukis has spent a lot of time being Mr. Wickham. In late 2019, Lukis – who, as...

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May 15, 2023

Trouble at Lyme

Mr. Darcy, aka Colin Firth, is riding a white horse when he comes home to Pemberley, aka Lyme Park, in the BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation...

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May 11, 2023

Our robot overlords read Jane Austen

It’s a truism that the best way to improve your writing is to read the work of good writers. Apparently, this maxim holds true even for...

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May 4, 2023

The unwritten manuscript

The untimely death last year of the acclaimed historical novelist Hilary Mantel was immediately recognized as a tragic loss for the world...

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May 1, 2023

Austen in the dreamscape

Australians may have a complicated relationship with Britain, their one-time mother country, but no such ambivalence seems to pervade...

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Apr 27, 2023

Walk the line

It’s not every day that Jane Austen gets name-checked in a newspaper article that also mentions Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and the...

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Mar 30, 2023