Deborah YaffeJul 29, 2019Greatest Hits, Part IThe Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...
Deborah YaffeJun 27, 2019Fragments of news, news about fragmentsThe Janeite word of the moment, it would appear, is “fragment.” * Last week, Jane Austen’s House Museum launched an urgent appeal for...
Deborah YaffeJun 3, 2019Starring Mrs. BennetBy now, contemporary updates of Pride and Prejudice are legion. On the page, we’ve had P&Ps set in the worlds of lawyers, rock stars,...
Deborah YaffeApr 29, 2019Atlanta, here we come!For those of us who are impatient to see the latest Jane Austen-inspired TV movie – i.e., for Janeites whose boundless optimism remains...
Deborah YaffeApr 15, 2019Speedy deliveryAs regular blog readers know, I have found it difficult to say anything positive about the recent spate of Jane Austen-inspired TV...
Deborah YaffeFeb 21, 2019Sanditon's SidneyProduction of the new television adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is moving along even more...
Deborah YaffeFeb 7, 2019Sanditon inches closer to the small screenJane Austen wrote only seventy pages of Sanditon before her final illness left her unable to work. In the intervening two centuries, her...
Deborah YaffeFeb 4, 2019Jane Austen meets The Breakfast ClubIt’s not every day that Jane Austen turns up in a teen sex comedy. So imagine my pleased surprise last week as I was watching the final...
Deborah YaffeNov 26, 2018Mistletoe, yes; pride and prejudice, noLast summer, when I learned that the Hallmark Channel would celebrate Christmas by broadcasting a movie based on a Jane Austen fanfic...
Deborah YaffeNov 12, 2018Can't *huff* keep up *puff*This business of Austen trend-spotting is getting to be exhausting. Barely four months ago, I noted that the two-decade-long craze for...
Deborah YaffeNov 8, 2018LibertiesBack in middle and high school, I took French. In college, I took Italian. I enjoyed them both – beautiful languages, fascinating...
Deborah YaffeOct 29, 2018Janeite Christmas at HallmarkThey say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. So perhaps the...