Another brick in the wall
Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...
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Deborah Yaffe
- Aug 25, 2014
Pet Austen Peeve #83: Movie Quotes Aren't Book Quotes
I suppose I should just stop banging my head against the same old brick wall. But really: if you’re going to go to the trouble of...
Deborah Yaffe
- Jun 5, 2014
Comma-counting across the centuries
I’m a punctuation geek, I must admit. A fellow reporter on my college newspaper once claimed to have heard me declare, with a passion...
Deborah Yaffe
- Mar 31, 2014
Austen on the (Indian) small screen
More international Jane Austen: an Indian TV channel is launching a show “based loosely” on Sense and Sensibility. (Not to be confused, I...
Deborah Yaffe
- Dec 19, 2013
Jane Austen movies: not the same as Jane Austen books
Look, it’s fine with me if your knowledge of Jane Austen is based on the movies, not the books. No problem. I love (many of) the movies...
Deborah Yaffe
- Oct 28, 2013
Dissed by the Austen Project
Joanna Trollope’s modern-dress adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, the first in a planned series of six Austen updates by popular...
Deborah Yaffe
- May 27, 2013
Sex in Jane Austen
The British novelist Howard Jacobson has done us all a service by pointing out the sex in Jane Austen. Not the obvious but offstage sex:...
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