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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

Be careful what you wish for

The #Sisterhood, it seemed, had won. For more than a year, the online fandom known as the #SanditonSisterhood has lobbied tirelessly for...

Deborah Yaffe

May 10, 2021

Sanditon fans build a second season

It’s been more than a year since the producers of Sanditon announced that the show, a TV mini-series based on the novel Jane Austen left...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 15, 2021

Coming attractions?

Surely the universe owes us a better year than the last. And for Janeites who enjoy screen adaptations of their favorite author, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 28, 2021

Goodbye at last, 2020

A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 31, 2020

Even sandier

Sanditon, the much-hyped TV adaptation of the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is probably not getting a second season,...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 11, 2020

I scream, you scream. . .

We Janeites love our Jane Austen movies. Can’t get enough of ‘em! Want more! And more! Or so you’d conclude from recent news: * Plans for...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 20, 2020

Sanditon reprieve?

The past six months have been no walk on the beach for passionate fans of the TV adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 28, 2020

Sisterhood is powerful

I was not enthusiastic about Sanditon, the ITV/PBS series based on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. Although the show,...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 5, 2020

Sanditon farewell?

Jane Austen experienced her share of literary rejection. One publisher declined even to look at the manuscript that eventually became...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 16, 2019

Sneak previews

The new year is shaping up as a happy one for Janeites, at least American ones, since it will usher in two new Austen adaptations – the...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 25, 2019

Second bananas

We Janeites may love Austen’s heroes and heroines, but it’s her secondary characters who make us laugh out loud. Fanny Dashwood’s...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 13, 2019

By the seaside

A few weeks ago, as ITV began airing a much-hyped miniseries based on Sanditon, the seaside novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 18, 2019