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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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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 21, 2019
Seaside publicity
For the past week or so, barely a day has passed without a story in the British press about the forthcoming eight-part television...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 14, 2019
Companions
Thirteen years ago, when PBS’ Masterpiece Theatre aired a new adaptation of Jane Eyre, the network offered viewers a chance to buy...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 4, 2019
Water, water everywhere
It’s been a wet week for Janeites. Last Monday, we were treated to the first trailer for Sanditon, the forthcoming ITV-PBS adaptation of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 28, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part I
The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 7, 2019
Oh, those clothes. .
The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26, 2019
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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 5, 2019
Christmas at Pemberley
The family-friendly Christmas show is a staple of local arts companies. Every December, the main stage in the regional theater near me is...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 2, 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,...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 19, 2019
Mistakes, misquotes, misunderstandings
Today on “Making Fun of the Internet,” a roundup of the latest Jane Austen-related stupid stuff that has crossed my cyber-transom...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 5, 2019
Keeping up with the Jameses
Some weeks, the Austen-related news tidbits that come my way are scattered and disparate, lacking any unifying theme. And then there’s...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 28, 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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 14, 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...
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