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Journalist and author
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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Kaleidescopic Austen
Over at the CW, someone has had a startlingly original idea: How about – get this! – modern-day updates of Jane Austen’s novels? OMG!...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 16, 2020
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Hold the hot chocolate
I’m afraid I have some very bad news. The pandemic has taken so much from us, and now it seems to have taken something more. Long ago, in...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 9, 2020
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Taking Pride
The past eighteen months have brought us a couple of made-for-the-small-screen Jane Austen spinoffs: the Lifetime movie Pride and...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 19, 2020
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Even sandier
Sanditon, the much-hyped TV adaptation of the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is probably not getting a second season,...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 12, 2020
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Deck the halls
After the year we’ve had, we’re all going to deserve a holiday-season treat. And it looks like the Janeites among us will be getting one....
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 5, 2020
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Yum
Twenty-five years ago today, the BBC’s beloved adaptation of Pride and Prejudice began airing on UK TV. By the time the show made its way...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 24, 2020
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I scream, you scream. . .
We Janeites love our Jane Austen movies. Can’t get enough of ‘em! Want more! And more! Or so you’d conclude from recent news: * Plans for...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 21, 2020
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Zooming Mr. Darcy
Dispiriting as the last six months have been, Janeites have encountered some notable silver linings in the gloomy cloud cover. We’ve been...
Deborah Yaffe
Sep 3, 2020
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New and/or improved
By now, we would all be happy to consign 2020 to the trash bin of history. Let’s reboot! Remake! Recycle and replace! Alas, another four...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 27, 2020
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Parched
I haven’t set foot in a movie theater in five months. (March 7. Multiplex up the road from here. The new adaptation of Emma, a pretty...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 10, 2020
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The Watsons, reborn
Among the Janeite casualties of pandemic lockdown was the planned West End production of The Watsons, Laura Wade’s much-praised...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 6, 2020
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Sanditon reprieve?
The past six months have been no walk on the beach for passionate fans of the TV adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 29, 2020
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