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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
Jan 2, 2023
Better luck this time?
Nearly five years ago, a Canadian lawyer named Tara Rout floated the notion of buying Luckington Court, the UK mansion that played...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 19, 2022
Sugarplums
As Christmas approaches, the internet has been filling our Janeite stockings with tidbits of Austen-related news: --Ahoy, there: Last...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 15, 2022
High-camp Jane Austen
After a year that brought not one but two same-sex updates of Pride and Prejudice, we probably don’t need further proof that the queering...
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Deborah Yaffe
Dec 12, 2022
Boy meets pig
By now, we know that the Pride and Prejudice formula—opposites attract, enemies to lovers, snobby-meets-snarky—accommodates many...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 14, 2022
Passages
The years 1995-96 yielded a bumper crop of filmed versions of Jane Austen’s novels, designed for both big and small screens. The...
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Deborah Yaffe
Nov 10, 2022
Baby Dionne
Last year, Alicia Silverstone got on TikTok and promptly started turning out Clueless-themed videos featuring her ten-year-old son. Now...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 17, 2022
Snooze
People who hate Jane Austen – yes, such benighted folks do exist – sometimes claim that she is so-o-o boring that she causes eyelids to...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 13, 2022
The pendulum swings
The smashing success of Netflix’s Bridgerton has ushered in a new era of multiracial casting in Regency costume dramas. This is good...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 26, 2022
Ensembles
Over the summer, when Janeites weren’t arguing about the controversial new Netflix adaptation of Persuasion, many were praising the...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 22, 2022
A milestone farewell
MGM’s 1940 movie of Pride and Prejudice was the first screen adaptation of a Jane Austen novel, and with its Victorian fashions,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 15, 2022
Sale in Aisle A
Attention, bargain hunters! Five years ago, you would have needed £9 million (about $11 million) to buy Luckington Court, the Cotswolds...
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Deborah Yaffe
Aug 11, 2022
Still talking
It’s never a bad time to talk about Persuasion–really, what are you doing that’s more important?--but right now may be an especially good...
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