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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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Regency playdate
Exactly 250 years ago, England saw the birth of a great artist whose innovations forever changed our culture. I speak, of course, of...
Deborah Yaffe
May 1, 2025
Austen the agreeable
Ask Janeites about their favorite author’s political and social views, and you’ll often hear arguments that boil down to this: Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 28, 2023
Back to the beach
It’s been a long road for fans of Sanditon, the PBS series based, very loosely, on the novel that Jane Austen left unfinished at her...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 16, 2023
Sugarplums
As Christmas approaches, the internet has been filling our Janeite stockings with tidbits of Austen-related news: --Ahoy, there: Last...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 19, 2022
Snooze
People who hate Jane Austen – yes, such benighted folks do exist – sometimes claim that she is so-o-o boring that she causes eyelids to...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 17, 2022
Back to the beach
May already! Practically swimsuit season – and thus a perfect time to check out the latest news about the two beachiest Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
May 9, 2022
Sanditon, now with less sex
Sanditon, the PBS-ITV series based ever-so-loosely on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, has been an acquired taste from...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 10, 2022
SandiCon no more
They could not be defeated by a host of implacable foes: mediocre reviews, low viewership numbers, bottom-line-driven corporate...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 27, 2022
Never heard of him
In George Orwell’s 1984, the dictatorial regime ruling Oceania requires its minions to drop documentation of inconvenient historical...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 13, 2021
While you were sleeping. . .
It’s the start of a new month, and thus the perfect time to update some old stories: * All dressed up: Over the summer, New York...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 1, 2021
Haters will hate
Shooting has begun on the second season of Sanditon, the ITV/PBS series based on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. A...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 26, 2021
Sanditon, the convention
In the past three years, Sanditon, the TV series based on Jane Austen’s last unfinished novel, has roller-coastered through a dizzying...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 24, 2021
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