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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
Feb 5, 2015
Whit tries Jane
Best Jane Austen news of the week (at least potentially): Shooting is about to start on director Whit Stillman’s movie of Lady Susan,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jan 8, 2015
Undead at last
The time for silver-bullet and stake-through-the-heart jokes is officially over. The movie version of Pride & Prejudice & Zombies has not...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 22, 2014
Death comes to PBS
Just because I didn't much like Death Comes to Pemberley, P.D. James' 2011 murder-mystery sequel to Pride and Prejudice -- and, like so...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 19, 2014
Must stop can't stop
I really should stop. Don’t torture myself, right? Just surrender my Jane Austen Critical Faculties license, turn in my Janeite Purist...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 24, 2014
Games Janeites play
It hasn’t quite been Ten Days that Rocked the Jane Austen World, but this past week or so has brought us several memorable Janeite teapot...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 10, 2014
Another brick in the wall
Was it just last month that I was pointing out the folly of banging my head against the brick wall of inaccurate Austen quotation? Yes,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 24, 2014
Pet Austen Peeve #83: Movie Quotes Aren't Book Quotes
I suppose I should just stop banging my head against the same old brick wall. But really: if you’re going to go to the trouble of...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 13, 2014
Manga Lizzy
The Japanese seem to be fond of Jane Austen – there is a Jane Austen Society of Japan, a Japanese scholar spoke at one of the Jane Austen...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 27, 2014
Another Jane Austen movie?
Today's quiz question: Which Jane Austen novel does this plot summary suggest? “Ella is touring Italy with her boyfriend, unaware that...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 4, 2014
Belle arrives
I’m looking forward to seeing Belle, the new movie about the real-life, mixed-race great-niece of Lord Mansfield, the eighteenth-century...
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Deborah Yaffe
Apr 23, 2014
Better late than never. . .
Squee! Only nine months late (but who’s counting?) my nine-disc, gazillion-hour edition of The Lizzie Bennet Diaries finally arrived this...
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Deborah Yaffe
Mar 30, 2014
Austen on the (Indian) small screen
More international Jane Austen: an Indian TV channel is launching a show “based loosely” on Sense and Sensibility. (Not to be confused, I...
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