#SanditonSisterhood

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

Deborah Yaffe

May 9, 2022

Back to the beach

May already! Practically swimsuit season – and thus a perfect time to check out the latest news about the two beachiest Jane Austen...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 27, 2022

They could not be defeated by a host of implacable foes: mediocre reviews, low viewership numbers, bottom-line-driven corporate...

Deborah Yaffe

Dec 13, 2021

In George Orwell’s 1984, the dictatorial regime ruling Oceania requires its minions to drop documentation of inconvenient historical...

Deborah Yaffe

May 10, 2021

The #Sisterhood, it seemed, had won. For more than a year, the online fandom known as the #SanditonSisterhood has lobbied tirelessly for...

Deborah Yaffe

Mar 15, 2021

It’s been more than a year since the producers of Sanditon announced that the show, a TV mini-series based on the novel Jane Austen left...

Deborah Yaffe

Jan 28, 2021

Surely the universe owes us a better year than the last. And for Janeites who enjoy screen adaptations of their favorite author, the...

Deborah Yaffe

Oct 11, 2020

Sanditon, the much-hyped TV adaptation of the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is probably not getting a second season,...

Deborah Yaffe

Sep 20, 2020

We Janeites love our Jane Austen movies. Can’t get enough of ‘em! Want more! And more! Or so you’d conclude from recent news: * Plans for...

Deborah Yaffe

Jun 28, 2020

The past six months have been no walk on the beach for passionate fans of the TV adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left...

Deborah Yaffe

Apr 5, 2020

I was not enthusiastic about Sanditon, the ITV/PBS series based on the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death. Although the show,...