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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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Taking liberties
In 2021, London theatergoers got a Pride and Prejudice with interpolated pop songs and an all-female cast. In 2022, they got a...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 15, 2024
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Not loving it
A lot of Austen fans refer to our beloved author as “Jane.” I do not. Partly, that’s because I don’t want to participate in a somewhat...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 12, 2024
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Something very shocking
In late 2022, I attended the Jane Austen Society of North America’s Annual General Meeting, held that year in Victoria, British Columbia....
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 5, 2024
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Digital fan
My “digital fan kit” arrived the day before I was set to join the first of two online book club meetings promoting the Hallmark Channel’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 1, 2024
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Miss Austen, sans regrets
Never let it be said that I allowed my excitement--nay, my sheer giddy fervor!--over the Hallmark Channel’s upcoming Jane Austen month to...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 11, 2024
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Happy New Loveyear
New Year’s Day has its melancholy side: Tinsel shelved until next December, work on the horizon, hangover hanging on. Luckily, however,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jan 1, 2024
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Rebooting Clueless: The Musical
Almost five years ago, I saw the off-Broadway production of Clueless: The Musical and found it a disappointingly pallid version of the...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 20, 2023
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Jane Austen universe(s), Part II
If you spend your days reading Jane Austen novels and consuming Jane Austen adaptations and talking to fellow Jane Austen fans and...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 16, 2023
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Adaptable
In the two centuries since Jane Austen’s death, her novels have proved almost infinitely adaptable, transmuted into stage plays, radio...
Deborah Yaffe
Nov 6, 2023
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Austen the agreeable
Ask Janeites about their favorite author’s political and social views, and you’ll often hear arguments that boil down to this: Jane...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 28, 2023
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Janeite madeleine
For Jane Austen fans, few pieces of music are as instantly recognizable as the Mozart-esque piano concerto that accompanies the credit...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 10, 2023
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P&P Barbie
The summer’s biggest movie, Greta Gerwig’s delightful and touching Barbie, knows women well—really, really well. The proof? Mr. Darcy...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 7, 2023
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