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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
Dec 31, 2015
Ring in 2016 with Emma
No doubt you’ll all be spending New Year’s Eve at glitzy, glamorous, altogether fabulous parties across the country and, indeed, the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 14, 2015
Regency improv
Were I to be in London tonight – which, alas, I am not – I would snap up a ticket to see Austentatious, an acting troupe that improvises...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 10, 2015
The twelve-word Austen
This weekend, New York City Janeites will gather to celebrate The Birthday with a presentation by Jack Wang, half of the duo behind the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 11, 2015
Guess who?
The good people who, despite all my entreaties to the Gods of Cinema, are bringing us the film adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 4, 2015
Fun! Inspirational! But not Jane Austen!
Those of you who’ve been reading this blog for awhile may stop here. You’ve heard what I’m going to say: They’re misquoting Jane Austen...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 19, 2015
That sinking feeling
“Jane Austen fans rejoice,” commands the Hollywood business website The Tracking Board. “Voltage Pictures is moving forward with a new...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 2, 2015
DFW/JA
As far as I know, David Foster Wallace had nothing to say about Jane Austen. (Admittedly, I don’t know for sure, since I’ve never read a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 15, 2015
It was 20 years ago today (almost). . .
The year 1995 marked what I’ve called the Big Bang of contemporary Jane Austen fandom: Colin Firth’s wet-shirt scene in the BBC’s famous...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 5, 2015
Good news about P&P&Z?
For months, the best news I could imagine hearing about the filmed adaptation of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Seth Grahame-Smith’s...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 1, 2015
Online Austen and our Internet selves
It’s been more than two years since we fans bid a sad farewell to The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, the delightful web series that recast Pride...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 5, 2015
Calling all Austen nerds
Given the attention lavished on filmed Jane Austen adaptations in the past twenty years, it was probably inevitable that, amid this...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 1, 2015
A date with the zombies
The movie of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies has a release date! And it is. . . (drum roll, please). . . February 19, 2016! So stop me...
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