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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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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
Man and snowmen
My husband seems befuddled, even a tad shell-shocked. His maiden viewing of a Jane Austen-themed Hallmark Christmas movie – Sense,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 2, 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
Happy Christmas to all!
Disaster averted! Collision avoided! Christmas catastrophe curtailed! Last month, as blog readers will recall, it appeared that the...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 21, 2019
Hands off!
Why do people keep trying to mess with Clueless? Amy Heckerling’s 1995 movie, which updated the story of Emma to high school in Beverly...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 14, 2019
Christmas mystery solved
Last month, as blog readers will recall, we jointly pondered a Jane Austen Christmas mystery: why a made-for-TV movie named Sense,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 16, 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
A Jane Austen Christmas mystery
See that headline? The one right above this blog post? I’m kind of proud of it. Doesn’t it totally sound like it could be the title of a...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 22, 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
Hunting for Easter eggs
Two episodes of the much-hyped TV adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, have aired in Britain over...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 4, 2019
Seaside publicity
For the past week or so, barely a day has passed without a story in the British press about the forthcoming eight-part television...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 21, 2019
Water, water everywhere
It’s been a wet week for Janeites. Last Monday, we were treated to the first trailer for Sanditon, the forthcoming ITV-PBS adaptation of...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 4, 2019
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