Austen after After
My philosophy of youthful reading can be summed up in three words: It’s all good. Comic books, novelizations of TV shows, futuristic...
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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
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 9, 2015
Miss Price goes to Washington
Jane Austen has been a semi-regular presence in the New York Times Book Review’s weekly “By the Book” feature, in which noted authors...
Deborah Yaffe
Apr 15, 2015
The Austen Fiasco?
Halfway to the finish line, the Austen Project is looking increasingly like the Austen Fiasco. The Austen Project, as you may recall, is...
Deborah Yaffe
Oct 26, 2014
Oh, those dear little women
Alexander McCall Smith, I’m told, is a delightful writer. But you wouldn’t know it from his rambling, unfocused and kind of dumb piece...
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...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 18, 2014
The Adventure of the Fading Copyright
The explosion of Jane Austen fan fiction over the past fifteen to twenty years was possible because of one salient fact: Austen’s books,...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 8, 2014
The complete Hubback, at last
Great news for aficionados of Jane Austen fan fiction: the long-inaccessible third volume of The Younger Sister, by Austen’s niece...
Deborah Yaffe
Mar 3, 2014
Postscript to "The Watsons in Winter": Bless the Midwest!
The library gods are smiling upon us Janeites. As I reported in my recently completed Watsons in Winter blog series, Jane Austen’s...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 13, 2014
Wrapping up The Watsons in Winter
“Each of us has a private Austen,” Karen Joy Fowler writes at the beginning of The Jane Austen Book Club, her 2004 novel about how...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 10, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Jennifer Ready Bettiol
Some Jane Austen fanfiction is produced by professional writers with one eye on a potentially profitable market. But much Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 6, 2014
The Watsons in Winter: Eucharista Ward
Jane Austen’s life was steeped in religion. As the daughter of an Anglican clergyman, she almost certainly believed in God, attended...
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