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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

Kaleidescopic Austen

Over at the CW, someone has had a startlingly original idea: How about – get this! – modern-day updates of Jane Austen’s novels? OMG!...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 16, 2020

Hold the hot chocolate

I’m afraid I have some very bad news. The pandemic has taken so much from us, and now it seems to have taken something more. Long ago, in...

Deborah Yaffe

Nov 9, 2020

Taking Pride

The past eighteen months have brought us a couple of made-for-the-small-screen Jane Austen spinoffs: the Lifetime movie Pride and...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 18, 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

Yum

Twenty-five years ago today, the BBC’s beloved adaptation of Pride and Prejudice began airing on UK TV. By the time the show made its way...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 23, 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

New and/or improved

By now, we would all be happy to consign 2020 to the trash bin of history. Let’s reboot! Remake! Recycle and replace! Alas, another four...

Deborah Yaffe

Aug 26, 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

Have another one

Just when you thought it was safe to put some cookies in the oven, toss a few snowballs, and top your hot chocolate with a dollop of...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 16, 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

Fruitcake

As the holidays approach, you may be bracing for the arrival of that winter perennial, the fruitcake -- baked months earlier, soaked in...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 9, 2019