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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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Even more persuadable
Last week, I reported on proliferating Persuasion adaptations – a straight-to-streaming update that aired last December, two period...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 29, 2021
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Haters will hate
Shooting has begun on the second season of Sanditon, the ITV/PBS series based on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. A...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 26, 2021
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Persuasion everywhere
Persuasion is having quite a year. Last December, a charmless modern update called Modern Persuasion – the dull, on-the-nose title gave...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 22, 2021
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On fire
Nearly two years ago, word trickled out that a same-sex update of Pride and Prejudice, set on the gay mecca of New York’s Fire Island,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 15, 2021
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The dating game
Some weeks, it’s not clear what tidbit of gossip or news deserves mention as the biggest story in Jane Austen fandom. Other weeks, a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2021
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On location
We adaptation-loving Janeites have grown used to disappointment. Remember the feature film of Sanditon, starring Charlotte Rampling as...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 28, 2021
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Sanditon, the convention
In the past three years, Sanditon, the TV series based on Jane Austen’s last unfinished novel, has roller-coastered through a dizzying...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 24, 2021
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As if, again
“Seven years I suppose are enough to change every pore of one’s skin, & every feeling of one’s mind,” Jane Austen wrote to her sister,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 21, 2021
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In the green room
It’s a funny time right now for us theater-loving Janeites: Some of our favorite things are still virtual, others are on their way back...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 17, 2021
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Party like. . .
Five years ago, in a blog post headlined “Party like it’s 1995,” I heralded a forthcoming spate of filmed Jane Austen adaptations – a...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 10, 2021
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Reboot, booted
Back in late 2019, when corona was just a neighborhood in Queens, the news broke that Hollywood was considering a television reboot of...
Deborah Yaffe
May 24, 2021
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Clueless no more
Last month, we Janeites felt a tad confused -- dare I say clueless? -- when Netflix and MRC Entertainment announced plans to produce a...
Deborah Yaffe
May 20, 2021
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