Walk the line
It’s not every day that Jane Austen gets name-checked in a newspaper article that also mentions Tucker Carlson, Ron DeSantis, and the...
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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
Jun 24, 2021
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
Dec 16, 2019
Sanditon farewell?
Jane Austen experienced her share of literary rejection. One publisher declined even to look at the manuscript that eventually became...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 4, 2019
Water, water everywhere
It’s been a wet week for Janeites. Last Monday, we were treated to the first trailer for Sanditon, the forthcoming ITV-PBS adaptation of...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 28, 2019
Greatest Hits, Part I
The Emmy nominations were announced recently, and all the brouhaha over Game of Thrones et al. has left me hankering to award some prizes...
Deborah Yaffe
Jun 26, 2019
Fragments of news, news about fragments
The Janeite word of the moment, it would appear, is “fragment.” * Last week, Jane Austen’s House Museum launched an urgent appeal for...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 21, 2019
Sanditon's Sidney
Production of the new television adaptation of Sanditon, the novel Jane Austen left unfinished at her death, is moving along even more...
Deborah Yaffe
Feb 7, 2019
Sanditon inches closer to the small screen
Jane Austen wrote only seventy pages of Sanditon before her final illness left her unable to work. In the intervening two centuries, her...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 1, 2018
International (mis)understanding
With their film adaptations and their fanfics and their Austen societies, residents of the Indian subcontinent seem to love Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Jul 11, 2018
Davies does Sanditon
For the Jane Austen world, it qualifies as blockbuster news: Revered screenwriter Andrew Davies, the man behind the iconic 1995 BBC...
Deborah Yaffe
May 20, 2018
Time for a mental health day
It’s been quite a while since I last discussed the unfortunate phenomenon of faux-Jane Austen quotes, usually originating in Jane Austen...
Deborah Yaffe
Aug 2, 2017
Complaining with Jane
I like to think that I am not a complainer, but I have to admit that I've done a lot of complaining on this blog. Some of my moans are...
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