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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

Happy New Loveyear

New Year’s Day has its melancholy side: Tinsel shelved until next December, work on the horizon, hangover hanging on. Luckily, however,...

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Jan 1, 2024

Jane Austen never wrote a sequel. Among her many excellent qualities was a sure sense of when to leave well enough alone. Alas, too many...

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Aug 4, 2022

We journalists like to joke that once you have three examples of something – avocado toast! Suburban sex-toy parties! -- you can write a...

Deborah Yaffe

Jul 2, 2018

Every now and again, along comes a Jane Austen adaptation, spinoff, or fanfic that, in its wishful thinking and reassuring punch-pulling,...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 4, 2018

The definitive screen adaptation of Mansfield Park has yet to be made. We’re still waiting for the first full-length movie of Sanditon,...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 12, 2018

You remember 1995, right? The beginning of that halcyon eighteen-month stretch during which six Jane Austen film adaptations, ranging in...

Deborah Yaffe

Feb 11, 2016

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

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...

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Jan 18, 2016