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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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Fragments of news, news about fragments
The Janeite word of the moment, it would appear, is “fragment.” * Last week, Jane Austen’s House Museum launched an urgent appeal for...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 27, 2019
Starring Mrs. Bennet
By 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 Yaffe
Jun 3, 2019
Atlanta, 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 Yaffe
Apr 29, 2019
Speedy delivery
As regular blog readers know, I have found it difficult to say anything positive about the recent spate of Jane Austen-inspired TV...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 15, 2019
Sanditon's Sidney
Production of the new television adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is moving along even more...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 21, 2019
Sanditon inches closer to the small screen
Jane Austen wrote only seventy pages of Sanditon before her final illness left her unable to work. In the intervening two centuries, her...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 7, 2019
Jane Austen meets The Breakfast Club
It’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 Yaffe
Feb 4, 2019
Mistletoe, yes; pride and prejudice, no
Last summer, when I learned that the Hallmark Channel would celebrate Christmas by broadcasting a movie based on a Jane Austen fanfic...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 26, 2018
Can'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 Yaffe
Nov 12, 2018
Liberties
Back in middle and high school, I took French. In college, I took Italian. I enjoyed them both – beautiful languages, fascinating...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 8, 2018
Janeite Christmas at Hallmark
They say that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result. So perhaps the...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 29, 2018
Davies does Sanditon
For the Jane Austen world, it qualifies as blockbuster news: Revered screenwriter Andrew Davies, the man behind the iconic 1995 BBC...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2018
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