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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
Apr 27, 2016
Austen stories on stage
Listening to a really good actor read aloud from a really good book is one of life’s great pleasures, not to mention my go-to strategy...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 6, 2016
Sanditon on screen
More casting news for what seems to be a for-real, actually-going-to-happen film adaptation of Jane Austen’s Sanditon: Two young,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 27, 2016
The end of a dry spell?
We fans of Jane Austen movie adaptations have had kind of a dry spell for the last few years. We’ve watched poor Sally Hawkins gallop...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 20, 2016
Lip gloss meets hamentashen
The holiday of Purim, which begins on Wednesday night, is the Jewish version of Mardi Gras: to commemorate the Biblical tale of how Queen...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 7, 2016
Getting it wrong, again
It’s time again for one of my favorite pastimes: Making Fun of the Internet – Jane Austen Edition. Today’s episode includes two entries: ...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 29, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: As If!
I love Clueless. Doesn’t everyone? Last summer marked the twentieth anniversary of the film’s release, and the milestone inspired a slew...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 15, 2016
Wedding season
Just in case yesterday’s festivities didn’t give you enough of that Valentine’s Day spirit, Biltmore House, the palatial Asheville, N.C.,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 11, 2016
Party like it's 1995
You remember 1995, right? The beginning of that halcyon eighteen-month stretch during which six Jane Austen film adaptations, ranging in...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 28, 2016
The Austen Catch-Up Project: Austentatious
In 1913, Sybil G. Brinton, the thirty-eight-year-old daughter of a wealthy carpet manufacturer from Worcestershire, England, published...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 25, 2016
Re-leash Mr. Darcy, please
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...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 18, 2016
Popcorn time for Janeites
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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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 14, 2016
It was (exactly) twenty years ago today. . .
People who were alive in November 1963 like to reminisce about the moment they learned that JFK had been shot. American Janeites who were...
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