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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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Re-leash Mr. Darcy, please
The life of a Jane Austen video completist is not easy. Yes, it’s true that in the service of her mission – to see and, ideally, to own...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 25, 2016
Popcorn time for Janeites
We Janeites fondly remember the years 1995-1997, when no fewer than six Austen adaptations hit the big screen in the US. The next few...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 18, 2016
It was (exactly) twenty years ago today. . .
People who were alive in November 1963 like to reminisce about the moment they learned that JFK had been shot. American Janeites who were...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 14, 2016
Fun! Inspirational! But not Jane Austen!
Those of you who’ve been reading this blog for awhile may stop here. You’ve heard what I’m going to say: They’re misquoting Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 4, 2015
Calling all Austen nerds
Given the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2015
Death comes to PBS
Just because I didn't much like Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James' 2011 murder-mystery sequel to Pride and Prejudice -- and, like so...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 22, 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
Aug 24, 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
Mar 30, 2014
Darcy in Lilliput
When a twelve-foot-high fiberglass statue of wet-shirt-Darcy was erected in a famed London lake last summer, it seemed the apotheosis of...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 19, 2014
Christmas Anglophilia
I don’t think I’m really an Anglophile – although it’s true that, if money were no object, I would certainly retire to a charming...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 23, 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
Dec 19, 2013
Back to Pemberley
I suppose it was inevitable that Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James’ 2011 murder-mystery-cum-Pride-and-Prejudice-sequel, was headed for...
Deborah Yaffe
May 29, 2013
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