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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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Be careful what you wish for
The #Sisterhood, it seemed, had won. For more than a year, the online fandom known as the #SanditonSisterhood has lobbied tirelessly for...
Deborah Yaffe
May 10, 2021
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Fifty Shades of Anne
Years ago, when the Harper Collins Austen Project was announcing which contemporary authors would undertake its modernizations of Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
May 3, 2021
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Costume drama
It’s Oscar night on Sunday, and even though this year will inevitably lack the red-carpet glamor of pre-pandemic times, I will avidly...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 22, 2021
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Mr. Wickham, live
The BBC’s iconic 1995 adaptation of Pride and Prejudice is known among Janeites by various shorthands: * There’s “the wet-shirt P&P,” for...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 19, 2021
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Sanditon fans build a second season
It’s been more than a year since the producers of Sanditon announced that the show, a TV mini-series based on the novel Jane Austen left...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 15, 2021
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Three weeks, three books (or is it four?)
Jane Austen sightings are like buses: Sometimes, you don’t get one for ages, and sometimes, they come in bunches. These last few weeks...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 22, 2021
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The Emma Trap
What is the nature of inspiration? How elastic is its definition? How large a distance can stretch between inspiration and inspiree...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 15, 2021
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Hear this
If you want a dulcet-toned Brit to read aloud to you from the works of Jane Austen, your options are many. The audiobook giant Audible...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 4, 2021
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Coming attractions?
Surely the universe owes us a better year than the last. And for Janeites who enjoy screen adaptations of their favorite author, the...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 28, 2021
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Goodbye at last, 2020
A year ago, I confidently predicted a 2020 filled with the usual array of Austen events: “Teas, balls, fairs, festivals, conferences,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 31, 2020
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New Year's present
On March 2, I reported the happy news that a theatrical adaptation of Emma – written by Kate Hamill, the actor/playwright whose madcap...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 24, 2020
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No rom, no com
The opening credits of Modern Persuasion, which began streaming Friday on a small screen near you, scroll through a litany of actors,...
Deborah Yaffe
Dec 21, 2020
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