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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
Mar 14, 2018
The Watsons on stage
The Watsons -- the novel Jane Austen began, probably in 1804, but never finished -- is a fascinating fragment. It’s bleak and wintry,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 11, 2018
Off the leash again
The definitive screen adaptation of Mansfield Park has yet to be made. We’re still waiting for the first full-length movie of Sanditon,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 26, 2018
P&P on ice
The Winter Olympics are over, but not without a fleeting Jane Austen moment. Last week, as my daughter and I were sitting glued to the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 15, 2018
Here we go again. . .
Last month, the Washington Post drew well-earned Janeite derision when it published an article exploring the astonishing news that Jane...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 11, 2017
P&P game-playing
Austen adaptations, whether on stage, screen or fanfic page, all too often fall victim to an excess of earnestness – the bonnets, the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 20, 2017
The factory at work
The Jane Austen adaptation factory never seems to stop churning out fresh material. By now, the proliferating combinations and...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 13, 2017
Remaking an icon
Unless you’ve spent the past week entirely absorbed in stocking your fallout shelter with canned goods, you’ve probably heard that a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 9, 2017
Puppies and prejudice
During World War I, historians tell us, Jane Austen’s novels were sometimes prescribed to traumatized British soldiers as a remedy for...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 26, 2017
Taxi!
I marked the bicentenary of Jane Austen’s death last week in rather prosaic fashion: giving my house an all-too-infrequent thorough...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jun 7, 2017
Brokeback Pemberley
In my experience, non-Janeites are blissfully unaware of the vast universe of Austen fanfic in all its magnificent, explicit, pansexual...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 24, 2017
Longbourn for sale
No one reads Pride and Prejudice and dreams of living at Longbourn. The Bennet family estate, much as Mr. Collins may praise it, is so...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 3, 2017
Jane Austen meets Texas debs
The year advances apace, and yet there still doesn’t seem to be a release date for the supposed-to-come-out-in-2017 film adaptation of...
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