Color-coding
Better late than never: Although it appeared more than a month ago, I’ve only just stumbled across a cogent and fascinating analysis of...
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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 24, 2020
Emma fashionista
The new feature-film adaptation of Emma opened this past weekend, but not, alas, in my neck of the woods, where we proles must wait until...
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Deborah Yaffe
Oct 30, 2019
Lydia the leopard
I really should cease being surprised by how indiscriminately purveyors of goods and services slap the name “Jane Austen” onto items with...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 7, 2019
Oh, those clothes. .
The success of the screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels has been attributed to many factors: romantic plots, attractive stars,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 3, 2019
Free to be. . .
On this holiday of freedom from tyranny, including the tyranny of conventional expectations, it seems appropriate to spend a moment...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 22, 2016
Window shopping
Fashion – at least in the practical, everyday, what-are-you-wearing-this-morning sense – is not my thing. However, I like looking at...
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Deborah Yaffe
Feb 15, 2016
Wedding season
Just in case yesterday’s festivities didn’t give you enough of that Valentine’s Day spirit, Biltmore House, the palatial Asheville, N.C.,...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 12, 2015
Recapturing Austen's physicality
Janeites never tire of speculating about Austen’s appearance (see here and here for examples), despite – or perhaps because of – the...
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Deborah Yaffe
May 31, 2015
The Jane Austen diet plan
We Janeites hail our beloved author as a witty social critic, a source of romantic escapism, a harbinger of a more civilized age, a...
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Deborah Yaffe
Jul 23, 2014
Wha--?
I love for people to find inspiration in Jane Austen. Really, I do. But from time to time, I look at something allegedly inspired by...
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Deborah Yaffe
Sep 22, 2013
The Dress
I spent this past week participating in a most enjoyable Group Read of Among the Janeites at the Republic of Pemberley (it's now...
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